Simplest table
|| one || two || three || || four || five || six ||
one
two
three
four
five
six
General table layout
||||||<tablewidth="80%">'''Headline'''|| ||Cell 1||Cell 2||Cell 3|| ||<rowspan=2> Two lines||||<bgcolor="#AAAAFF"> Two columns|| ||<rowbgcolor="#FFFFAA">Cell 2||Cell 3||
Headline
Cell 1
Cell 2
Cell 3
Two lines
Two columns
Cell 2
Cell 3
Cell width
|| Narrow ||<:99%> Broad ||
Narrow
Broad
Spanning rows and columns
||<|2> 2 lines || line 1 || || line 2 || ||<-2> line 3, 2 columns broad ||
2 lines
line 1
line 2
line 3, 2 columns broad
Alignment
||<(50%> left ||<^|3> up ||<v|3> down || ||<:> mid || ||<)> right ||
left
up
down
mid
right
Colors
||<#FF0000> red ||<#00FF00> green ||<#0000FF> blue ||
red
green
blue