Most wikis use single or double pipes to separate table cells. Single pipes (
|) allow better use of space and are faster to type than double pipes since pipes are not usually needed in table cells.
Tables in wiki engines (1 Dec 2006)
Purely single pipes to separate cells
- Confluence (uses || to separate headers)
- DokuWiki (uses ^ to separate headers)
- JSPWiki (uses || to separate headers)
- MicKI ( use |# to separate headers)
Purely double pipes to separate cells
More details: List of Table Markups