Using WikiMarkUp to create tables with merged column headers

Sarah Hunt

Hi,

When I create a table using Confluence I can merge the cells of the top row, and then have split cells beneath for individual column headers.

The Confluence xml source code views as below:

<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<th> </th>
<th colspan="6" style="text-align: center;">Fruit</th></tr>
<tr>
<td class="highlight" colspan="1"><span>Quantity</span></td>
<td class="highlight" colspan="1">Apples</td>
<td class="highlight" colspan="1">Pears</td>
<td class="highlight" colspan="1">Bananas</td></tr>
<tr>
<td class="highlight">1</td>
<td>Yes</td>
<td><span>Yes</span></td>
<td colspan="1"><span>NO</span></td></tr>
<tr>
<td class="highlight">2</td>
<td><span>Yes</span></td>
<td><span>NO</span></td>
<td colspan="1"><span>NO</span></td></tr>
<tr>
<td class="highlight">4</td>
<td><span>NO</span></td>
<td><span>NO</span></td>
<td colspan="1"><span>Yes</span></td></tr></tbody></table>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>

When using WikiMarkUp in JIRA to create the same table it should be as simple as the below:

|| ||Fruit||
|Quantity|Apples|Pears|Bananas|
|1|Yes|Yes|NO|
|2|Yes|NO|NO|
|4|NO|NO|Yes|

However where 'Fruit' would sit across Apples,Pears & Bananas in Confluence, in JIRA this results in 'Fruit' being a column header to the second column only (Apples).

Does anyone know how to make WikiMarkUp in JIRA replicate the xml code used in Confluence to merge cells??

Many Thanks

Sreenivasaraju P

As per my knowledge you can't do this directly using wiki markup. You can use third partly plugins like http://www.adaptavist.com/w/Plugins/free/content-formatting/