My users have been putting in nbsp to stop parts of individual lines in a table from wrapping. What I'd like is to be able to add the CSS white-space: nowrap; to apply to particular columns in a table, allowing others to wrap, but all I've managed to do is apply the style line by line, which my users will never do. (I tried the 'nowrap' template, which they might adopt, but that doesn't seem to work, see previous topic.
My attempts so far can be seen at http://wiki.johnbray.org.uk/Tabletest
I've hacked SimpleTable.php to force all but the last column to use the nowrap template. See http://wiki.johnbray.org.uk/Tabletest
i dont think that mediawiki supports the colgroup html tag.
You might be able to do something fancy with nth-child if you have extension:TemplateStyles installed. E.g. table.classNameHere tr td:nth-child(2) {white-space: nowrap} or something
My SimpleTable.php change to convertTable
if ($col < sizeof($fields)-1) {
$wikitab .= $cbar . ' <span style="white-space: nowrap;">' . $field . "</span>\n";
} else {
$wikitab .= $cbar . " " . $field . "\n";
}