Template:Column-generating template families

Column-generating template families

See also: Help:Advanced table features#Side-by-side columns of tables, images, lists. Straight divs (not part of templates) work on desktop monitors. More than one column will show up in cell phones too if the columns are narrow enough. Straight divs will do almost everything the templates below do, and do it better. And they comply with MOS:LTAB.

The templates listed here are not interchangeable. For example, using {{col-float}} with {{col-end}} instead of {{col-float-end}} would leave a <div>...</div> open, potentially harming any subsequent formatting.

• "Responsive/mobile suited" refers to whether more than one column will show up in cell phones. See tests here. Some templates need to be updated to work in cell phones too. Please use mobile-suited templates, or straight divs. For why, see WP:Access. See discussion.
• "Deprecated. Replace over time" is under discussion about whether templates without mobile capability should officially be called deprecated. In any case most uses of those templates can be replaced now by other templates or straight divs.

Column templates

Type	Family	Deprecated. Replace over time	Complies with MOS:LTAB	Handles wiki table code?	Responsive/ mobile suited	Dependent on media queries	Can form multiple columns	Visual Editor– suited	Start template	Column divider	End template
Float	"col-float"		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	?	{{col-float}}	{{col-float-break}}	{{col-float-end}}
	"columns-start"		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	?	{{columns-start}}	{{column}}	{{columns-end}}
Float	"stack"	See talk	?	?	?	Yes	No	?	{{stack}} or {{stack begin}}	?	{{stack end}}
Columns	"div col"		Yes	Yes	Yes	?	?	?	{{div col}}	instead use {{no col break}}	{{div col end}}
	"columns list"		Yes	No	Yes	?	?	?	{{columns list}} (wraps div col)	—	—
Flexbox	"flex columns"		Yes	No	Yes	?	?	?	{{flex columns}}	—	—
Flexbox	"flexbox wrap"		Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	?	{{flexbox wrap|start}}	{{flexbox wrap|break}}	{{flexbox wrap|end}}
Table	"col"	See talk	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	?	?	{{col-begin}}, {{col-begin-fixed}} or {{col-begin-small}}	{{col-break}} or {{col-2}} .. {{col-5}}	{{col-end}}

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