Editing DPL3/Parameters: Controlling output format (section)

===tablerow===

{{DPL parameter
 |name   = tablerow
 |purpose= a simple syntax to create customized tabular output; see also {{dpl3|table}}
}}

Syntax:

{{DPL syntax|tablerow=''coldef'', ..}}

Where ''coldef'' contains wiki code which uses the symbol '%%' to refer to the corresponding element of an {{dpl3|include}} statement.

The {{dpl3|table}} statement (which '''must''' be used as a prerequisite for {{dpl3|tablerow}}) cares for the basics of table generation. So, when you define a column definition, you only need to specify the code for the field contents itself. You can start with field attributes like "bgcolor" or skip them. You can add a leading {{code|\n}} or {{code|¶}} to make sure that the field contents are displayed correctly if it contains wiki syntax that depends on linebreaks (e.g. enumeration list).
You must specify all columns. i.e. you must have as many entries in the {{dpl3|tablerow}} statement as there are columns in your table. Skipping a column would suppress output for that column completely.

The {{dpl3|tablerow}} command is best explained by an example:
<pre><nowiki>
<dpl>
  category=Help
  titlematch=DPL%
  count=4
  includepage ={DPL Manual}:section,%-1[25]
  table       =,Title,Sub Title,Last Section (25 chars)
  tablerow    =style="text-align:center;background-color:lightyellow;"|%%,|%%,
</dpl>
</nowiki></pre>
<dpl>
  category=Help
  titlematch=DPL%
  count=4
  includepage ={DPL Manual}:section,%-1[25]
  table       =,Title,Sub Title,Last Section (25 chars)
  tablerow    =style="text-align:center;background-color:lightyellow;"|%%,|%%,
</dpl>
The following example includes the use of {{dpl3|addpagecounter}} and {{tt|%COUNT%}}, both of which were removed in MediaWiki 1.25.
<pre><nowiki>
<dpl>
  category=African Union member states
  nottitlematch=Sudan
  addpagecounter=true
  includepage ={Infobox Country or territory}:area:population_estimate,%0[100]
  format      =,,\n|style="text-align:right;"|²{#ifexpr:%COUNT%>300¦<big>'''%COUNT%'''</big>¦%COUNT%}²,
  table       =,Country,Area,Population,Text,#hits
  tablerow    =style="text-align:right;"|%%,style="text-align:right;"|%%,style="background-color:lightyellow;"|<small>%%</small>,\n|style="text-align:right;"|%%
</dpl>
</nowiki></pre>
* We select some African countries, we exclude Sudan
* We acquire a piece of meta data about the articles we will find (in our case the usage counter)
* We include two named parameters from a template call, <nowiki>{{Infobox Country or territory}}</nowiki>
* We include a short text passage from the text before the first chapter
* We use the third parameter of {{dpl3|format}} to output the usage counter (we could even highlight values above 100 here, for example)
* We highlight usage values above 300
* We define a standard wiki table with the article name in the first column (named "Country")
* We define column headers for transcluded contents and for the usage counter
* We care for right alignment of the numerical values and define a bgcolor for the text