Template: Wikitable

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Usage

This is designed to make passing tables to templates less of a hassle.

Oftentimes, adding wikitable markup to a template or other parser tag generates gibberish when one fails to escape every | and =. Moreover, escaping pipe characters with {{!}} everywhere can make for some rather ugly-looking markup.

With this module, most wikitables can be embedded into templates without escaping any pipe characters. Also, = for <table> element attributes do not need to be escaped, however, for individual rows and cells, such is still necessary. Finally, there must be at least one pipe character before the first header cell (only an issue if |- is omitted before the first row)

2016 Summer Olympics bidding results 500px
City	NOC	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3
Rio de Janeiro	Template:BRA	26	46	66
Madrid	Template:ESP	28	29	32
Tokyo	Template:JPN	22	20	—
Chicago	Template:USA	18	—	—

code (with changes highlighted):

{{wikitable| class="wikitable" width="auto" style="text-align: center"
|-
! colspan{{=}}"6" |2016 Summer Olympics bidding results
[[Image:Bids for the 2016 Summer Olympics.svg|center|500px]]
|- style{{=}}"background:#efefef;"
! '''City'''
! '''NOC'''
| style{{=}}"background: silver" |'''Round 1'''
| style{{=}}"background: silver" |'''Round 2'''
| style{{=}}"background: silver" |'''Round 3'''
|-
| style{{=}}"text-align:left;" |'''[[Rio de Janeiro bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics|Rio de Janeiro]]'''
| style{{=}}"text-align:left;" |'''{{BRA}}'''
| style{{=}}"text-align:center;" |26
| style{{=}}"text-align:center;" |'''46'''
| style{{=}}"text-align:center;" |'''66'''
|-
| style{{=}}"text-align:left;" |[[Madrid bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics|Madrid]]
| style{{=}}"text-align:left;" |{{ESP}}
| style{{=}}"text-align:center;" |'''28'''
| style{{=}}"text-align:center;" |29
| style{{=}}"text-align:center;" |32
|-
| style{{=}}"text-align:left;" |[[Tokyo bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics|Tokyo]]
| style{{=}}"text-align:left;" |{{JPN}}
| style{{=}}"text-align:center;" |22
| style{{=}}"text-align:center;" |20
| style{{=}}"text-align:center;" |—
|-
| style{{=}}"text-align:left;" |[[Chicago bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics|Chicago]]
| style{{=}}"text-align:left;" |{{USA}}
| style{{=}}"text-align:center;" |18
| style{{=}}"text-align:center;" |—
| style{{=}}"text-align:center;" |—
}}