Template talk:T chart

Documentation

This template makes a T-chart with up to 6 rows (besides the header). The first row is mandatory, as is the left column of each row that's present.

{{T chart |left_heading=Fruit |right_heading=Vegetables |L1=Banana |R1=Squash |L2=Apple |R2=Radish |L3=Orange |R3=Carrot |L4=Grape |R4=Eggplant |L5=Lime |R5=Zucchini |L6=Blackberry |R6=Olive }}

Fruit Vegetables Banana Squash Apple Radish Orange Carrot Grape Eggplant Lime Zucchini Blackberry Olive

Some of the coding for the template gets funky because you can't mix parser functions like {{#if:}} with vertical bars needed to separate table elements. So anywhere we have {{!}} is a place where we cannot have a vertical bar (but need one).

Bugs

The right column ends up with an extra blank line for every unused row. If I don't put a carriage return between between the {{#if:}} functions, that goes away, but the the |- row separators break. I've not figured a way around that yet.

Future changes

Might be able to make a row show up if either Ln or Rn are present by doing something like this:

{{#ifexpr: {{#len:{{{L2}}}}}|{{#len:{{{R2}}}}}|code for including the row|}}