A request for the ability to center-justify the text in a tables cells/rows/columns.
This is usually done by adding style="text-align: center;" to either the entire table, or rows, or cells.
Main documentation at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Tables#Attributes_on_tables
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| Status | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | None | T103276 Provide a way to justify the contents of a table cell | ||
| Open | None | T54180 Be able to set table cell background (and other formatting options) | ||
| Open | None | T183976 Make it possible to set vertical text alignment for a table in VisualEditor |
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Note that there is a request for the table syntax to make it 'easier' to do column/row alignment of table cells T2418: Easier and better alignment within Wiki Tables (but mostly discussed in T2986). Just to point out that this isn't particularly easy, even in wikicode, so any improvement here would probably be very much appreciated by editors.
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Yes, I'd rather VE didn't support and encourage the status-quo of using style attributes.
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I don't think arbitrary styling is necessary here? Text alignment is pretty easy to figure out with classes that also convey semantic information e.g. <td class="number">. In English, numbers are generally right aligned; normal text is left aligned, dashes and abbreviations are generally centered. Supporting basic classes for certain kinds of information seems entirely reasonable (if we don't support class provision today in VE?).