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February 12

Help with coloring a specific Wikipedia table that I have just made

Is there any easy way to put all of the information for Democratic US Presidents on this table in blue?:

U.S._economic_performance_under_Democratic_and_Republican_presidents#Historical_unemployment_rate_statistics

Thank you. Futurist110 (talk) 01:16, 12 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

That's annoying. Help:Table#Color; scope of parameters shows a style= modifier on the |- line as setting the color for the whole row, but when I try doing that on the presidents table, it only seems to affect the first cell, and I can't see what's different. --142.112.149.107 (talk) 05:45, 12 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Setting the style for a whole row only works if the cells of that row are all on one line in the wiki source. You can do something like:

|- style="background:#ffc;font-weight:bold;" align=center

| align=left | John Doe || [[White Patriot Party (2024)|White Patriots]]<sup>†</sup> || 2025–2073 || 3.2% || 92.1% || +88.9%

This gives a row of cells with the same background colour:

President's name	President's political party	President's term in office	Unemployment rate at start of term	Unemployment rate at end of term	Change in unemployment rate
Abraham Lincoln	Republican	1809–1865	12.0%	12.0%	0.0%
John Doe	White Patriots	2025–2073^†	3.2%	92.1%	+88.9%

--Lambiam 08:09, 12 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! How's this, then? --142.112.149.107 (talk) 22:19, 12 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting; thank you! I might write on your talk page if I will have any additional questions about this, @Lambiam:! Futurist110 (talk) 01:59, 13 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I am not particularly knowledgeable about table markup. I found this out the hard way, by a combination of trying and of looking at the wikisource of tables with a column style. --Lambiam 08:33, 13 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]