Arranging your data into tabular form has never been so easy!
Tabulating
Creating HTML tables has always been a study in perseverance. If you work at it long enough you eventually get the results you want.
With BLUEPHRASE, creating tables is straightforward, and way easier than Markdown, wikitext, or straight HTML.
Let's start by examining the finished result —
Fiber origins
| material | origin | source |
|---|---|---|
| wool | animal | goat or sheep hair |
| silk | animal | cocoon of Chinese silkworm |
| cotton | plant | cellulose from cotton bolls |
| kapok | plant | seed pods of the Ceiba tree |
| polyester | synthetic | polyethylene terephthalate |
| nylon | synthetic | thermoplastic polymer |
Classic table notation
The classic BLUEPHRASE notation to accomplish this looks like:
h1 Fiber origins
table {
tr {
th material
th origin
th source
}
tr {
td wool
td animal
td goat or sheep hair
}
tr {
td silk
td animal
td cocoon of Chinese silkworm
}
tr {
td cotton
td plant
td cellulose from cotton bolls
}
tr {
td kapok
td plant
td seed pods of the Ceiba tree
}
tr {
td polyester
td synthetic
td polyethylene terephthalate
}
tr {
td nylon
td synthetic
td thermoplastic polymer
}
}
Implied table notation
The classic notation can be abbreviated by using implied notation.
The two rules we need to know are:
tablesemantax has an implied child oftrtrsemantax has an implied child oftd
Knowing these rules, we can shorten things up to look like this:
h1 Fiber origins
table {
{
th material
th origin
th source
} {
wool
animal
goat or sheep hair
} {
silk
animal
cocoon of Chinese silkworm
} {
cotton
plant
cellulose from cotton bolls
} {
kapok
plant
seed pods of the Ceiba tree
} {
polyester
synthetic
polyethylene terephthalate
} {
nylon
synthetic
thermoplastic polymer
}
}
Inline table notation
The implied notation can also be written using inline phrases, which looks like this:
h1 Fiber origins
table {
<<th material>> <<th origin>> <<th source>>
<<wool>> <<animal>> <<goat of sheep hair>>
<<silk>> <<animal>> <<cocoon of Chinese silkworm>>
<<cotton>> <<plant>> <<cellulose from cotton bolls>>
<<kapok>> <<plant>> <<seed pods of the Ceiba tree>>
<<polyester>> <<synthetic>> <<polyethylene terephthalate>>
<<nylon>> <<synthetic>> <<thermoplastic polymer>>
}
