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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.

Assigned focus area

Unassigned.

Type of wish

Feature request

Wikipedia

Affected users

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

Phabricator tasks

T103276, T54180

Other details

  • Created: 20:38, 24 March 2025 (UTC)
  • Last updated: 10:29, 25 March 2025 (UTC)
  • Author: Hijerovit (talk)