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Needs

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The templates in this series are designed to be used in a table to make a cell with text in that cell, with an appropriately colored background. They are commonly used in comparison tables.

For example, {{yes}} makes a cell with a green background. The text in the cell is taken from the first parameter; {{yes|Sure}} would output "Sure" otherwise it defaults to "Yes". Most templates allow authors to override the default text in this way, some require text put after the template call and some also need a vertical bar in between: {{table cell template}} text or {{table cell template}} | text. This information, the colors and default texts are found in the table below.

If you want to use other attributes for the table cells, e.g. colspan or rowspan, they need to be put before the template call and there must be no vertical bar | in between them:

Yes	No	N/A
Yes/No

...
!{{Yes}} ||{{No}} ||rowspan=2 {{n/a}}
|-
|colspan=2 {{Yes-No}}
...

Templates

Table cell templates

Class	Default syntax	Preview (default)	Customized syntax	Preview (customized)
table-rh	{{rh}} | Row header	Row header	{{rh|align=right}} | Row header	Row header
	{{rh2}} | Row header	Row header	{{rh2|align=right}} | Row header	Row header
table-yes	{{yes}}	Yes	{{yes|Customized [[Plain text|text]]}}	Customized text
table-maybe	{{maybe}}	Maybe	{{maybe|Customized [[Plain text|text]]}}	Customized text
table-no	{{no}}	No	{{no|Customized [[Plain text|text]]}}	Customized text
	{{bad}}	Bad	{{bad|F}}	F
	{{coming soon}}	Coming soon	{{coming soon|Second half of the year}}	Second half of the year
	{{eliminated}}	Eliminated	{{eliminated|Dropped out}}	Dropped out
table-siteactive	{{site active}}	Active	{{site active|Up}}	Up
table-siteinactive	{{site inactive}}	Inactive	{{site inactive|Down}}	Down
table-yes2	{{good}}	Good	{{good|A}}	A
	{{yes2}}		{{yes2|Text}}	Text
	{{ya}}		{{ya|Customized alt text|link=WP:ALT|text=text to display instead of image}}
	{{won}}	Won	{{won|text=white|color=darkblue}}	Won
	{{won|place=1}}	1	{{won|place=Gold}}	Gold
	{{won|place=2}}	2	{{won|place=Silver}}	Silver
	{{won|place=3}}	3	{{won|place=Bronze}}	Bronze
table-no2	{{no2}}		{{no2|Text}}	Text
	{{na}}		{{na|Customized alt text|link=WP:ALT|text=text to display instead of image}}
	{{nom}}	Nominated	{{nom|5}}	5
	{{sho}}	Shortlisted	{{sho|Proposed}}	Proposed
	{{longlisted}}	Longlisted	{{longlisted|Rejected}}	Rejected
	{{TBA}}	TBA	{{TBA|To be announced}}	To be announced
table-partial	{{partial}}	Partial	{{partial|Almost done}}	Almost done
	{{okay}}	Neutral	{{okay|C}}	C
	{{Yes-No}}	Yes/No	{{Yes-No|Yes with an if; no with a but}}	Yes with an if; no with a but
	{{some}}	Some	{{some|Many}}	Many
table-any	{{any}}	Any
table-na	{{n/a}}	N/A
	{{BLACK}}	N/A
table-unknown	{{unknown}}	Unknown	{{unknown|?}}	?
table-depends	{{depends}}	Depends	{{depends|Customized [[Plain text|text]]}}	Customized text
table-included	{{included}}	Included
table-dropped	{{dropped}}	Dropped
	{{terminated}}	Terminated
table-beta	{{beta}}	Beta
	{{table-experimental}}	Experimental	{{table-experimental|Customized [[Plain text|text]]}}	Customized text
table-maybe	{{maybe}}	Maybe	{{maybe|Customized [[Plain text|text]]}}	Customized text
table-free	{{free}}	Free	{{free|Customized [[Plain text|text]]}}	Customized text
table-proprietary	{{proprietary}}	Proprietary	{{proprietary|Customized [[Plain text|text]]}}	Customized text
table-nonfree	{{nonfree}}	Non-free	{{nonfree|Customized [[Plain text|text]]}}	Customized text
table-needs	{{needs}}	Needs	{{needs|Customized [[Plain text|text]]}}	Customized text
table-nightly	{{nightly}}	Nightly build	{{nightly|Customized [[Plain text|text]]}}	Customized text
table-release-candidate	{{release-candidate}}	Release candidate	{{release-candidate|Customized [[Plain text|text]]}}	Customized text
no class	{{draw}}		{{draw|Text}}	Text
no class	{{incorrect}}	Incorrect	{{incorrect|Customized [[Plain text|text]]}}	Customized text
no class	{{no result}}	No result	{{no result|N.R.}}	N.R.
no class	{{pending}}	Pending
no class	{{unofficial}}	Unofficial
no class	{{usually}}	Usually
no class	{{rarely}}	Rarely
no class	{{sometimes}}	Sometimes
no class	{{CMain}}	Main	{{CMain|Customized [[Plain text|text]]}}	Customized text
no class	{{CRecurring}}	Recurring	{{CRecurring|Customized [[Plain text|text]]}}	Customized text
no class	{{CGuest}}	Guest	{{CGuest|Customized [[Plain text|text]]}}	Customized text
no class	{{active fire}}	Active (12%)
no class	{{contained}}	Contained
table-success	{{success}}	Success	{{success}}<ref>Wow!</ref>	Success
table-failure	{{failure}}	Failure	{{failure|Wrong orbit}}	Wrong orbit
table-partial	{{partial failure}}	Partial failure	{{partial failure|[[Cubesat]] not deployed}}	Cubesat not deployed
table-planned	{{planned}}	Planned	{{planned|July 2018}}	July 2018
table-scheduled	{{scheduled}}	Scheduled	{{scheduled|3 March 2017}}	3 March 2017

Code

Common code to most if not all the templates in this series:

style="background: #abcdef; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: {{{align|center}}}; {{{style|}}}" class="automatic table-automatic"| {{{1|text}}}

Code specific to this template:

style="background: #F99; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center; " class="need table-needs"|Needs

To make a new table cell template you can use:

{{subst:Table cell templates|text= default text |bg= background color |class= a class name without prefix |align= standard horizontal alignment}}

You should leave out the align parameter and often the class parameter is unnecessary, too.

Add the new template to the table in the common documentation afterwards. Please consider reusing one of the other templates and please choose the color sensibly.

If you find a table cell template that does not take a parameter and you want to be able to change the text in the cell, do not duplicate the template! Instead, edit the template and change the text to a default parameter substitution. For example, if a template's text is Dropped, change that to {{{1|Dropped}}}.

style="background: #abcdef; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center; " class="automatic table-automatic"| text

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData documentation for this template used by VisualEditor and other tools.

Needs

One of several templates for styling individual table cells with standard contents and colors.

Template parameters[Edit template data]

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
text	1	text to be displayed instead of the default, if this doesn’t work put the text after the template, possibly with a vertical bar | in between Default (template dependent)	Line	optional
horizontal align	align	text alignment inside the cell, either ‘left’, ‘right’, ‘center’ or ‘justified’ Default center	Line	optional
style	style	a semicolon separated list of additional CSS rules to be applied to the table cell Default	Line	optional
background color	color	a valid CSS color value or name to override the standard the cell background, only available with some templates Default (template dependent)	Line	optional

See also

• {{change}}: Calculates, displays and color-codes changes between two values
• {{GPL-lic}}: Specialized redirect for {{Free}}
• {{LGPL-lic}}: Specialized redirect for {{Free}}

Notes

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