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The Template:Col-2 sets column width for each of two columns, with align=left, valign=top. The align or valign can be changed: {{col-2 |align=right|valign=center}}. The {{col-begin}}, {{col-break}} and {{col-end}} templates control columns of text on a page:

  • {{col-begin}}: starts a table (followed by {{col-break}} for 1st column)
  • {{col-break}}: triggers the start of each column
  • {{col-end}}: ends the multi-column table.

The widths of columns can be specified by using various additional codes. See below for examples.

Usage

{{col-begin|width=70%}}: start table with specific width.
{{col-break|width=66%}}: start column-1 as 66% wide.
This is text in column-1.
{{col-break|width=33%}}: start column-2 as 33% wide.
This is text in column-2.
{{col-end}}

The table will have two columns, with column 1 twice (2×) the width of column 2.

A border of 2px (1px width on each side) corresponds to a 5%. Therefore, with a 2px border, the width needs to be 95% for the table to fit within the screen. Since it's possible that some tables might not have a border, correction on the individual page could be made after substitution. Another way to create a two column table is like this:

<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext">

</syntaxhighlight>

Examples

Here are some example codes that you can use to make columns of text in your Wikipedia article. You can change the width of your columns by changing the code words that go between the text of your columns. Good luck!

Example 1, using col-break

<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext">

</syntaxhighlight>

gives:

Example 2, using col-2

<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext">

</syntaxhighlight>

gives:

Example 3, use col-break with specified widths

<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext">

</syntaxhighlight>

gives:

Example 4, use col-break with auto outer width

<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext">

</syntaxhighlight>

Example 5, Lots of columns, using col-break

See also

Column-generating template families

The templates listed here are not interchangeable. For example, using {{col-float}} with {{col-end}} instead of {{col-float-end}} would leave a HTML "div" (division) open, potentially harming any subsequent formatting. <section begin="table" />

Column templates
Type Family
Handles wiki
 table code?dagger
Responsive/
Mobile suited
Start template Column divider End template
Float "col-float" Yes Yes {{col-float}} {{col-float-break}} {{col-float-end}}
"columns-start" Yes Yes {{columns-start}} {{column}} {{columns-end}}
Columns "div col" Yes Yes {{div col}} {{div col end}}
"columns-list" No Yes {{columns-list}} (wraps div col)
Flexbox "flex columns" No Yes {{flex columns}}
Table "col" Yes No {{col-begin}},
{{col-begin-fixed}} or
{{col-begin-small}}
{{col-break}} or
{{col-2}} .. {{col-5}}
{{col-end}}

dagger Can template handle the basic wiki markup {| | || |- |} used to create tables? If not, special templates that produce these elements (such as {{(!}}, {{!}}, {{!!}}, {{!-}}, {{!)}})—or HTML tags (‎<table>...‎</table>, ‎<tr>...‎</tr>, etc.)—need to be used instead.<section end="table" />

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Col-2 in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for Col-2

Starts a column in a two-column table begun by {{col-begin}}.

Template parameters

ParameterDescriptionTypeStatus
alignalign

Horizontal alignment of content.

Default
left
Stringoptional
valignvalign

Vertical alignment of content.

Default
top
Stringoptional