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Text alignment in tables for VisualEditor (Community Wishlist/W371)

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Description

Editing cell properties is common practice when creating wikitables, and text alignment is an often used and very basic feature that is still not available through the VisualEditor interface. This is especially problematic for any new editor or one who hasn't been able to get a good grasp of how the code works, especially since wikitable code tends to be a bit complex (relatively speaking).

Implementing some form of text alignment formatting within tables in the VE interface would be of great use to pretty much every Wikipedia project and user. New users would be able to do more with less effort, and experienced users would have less cleanup work.

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Type of wish
Feature request
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Affected users

All editors, especially new ones and those not well versed in wikisyntax

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  • Created: 20:38, 24 March 2025
  • Last updated: 16:57, 27 November 2025
  • Author: Runolist (talk)
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