Template:Get cell/doc

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This template uses Lua: Module:Get cell

This template gets the content of a specified table cell. This is useful for making table cells whose value depend on others.

To get the content of a table cell, first you need to give an id to the table (see #Example). Then you can get the content of any cell in that table using the syntax:

{{Get cell| cell-reference | table-id }}

replacing "cell-reference" for A1, B2, D7, etc, and "table-id" for the id of the table (see #Example).

Notes:

• If the cell content is numeric, it will be automatically parsed into a plain number to simplify subsequent calculations (see #Example).
• If the table is transcluded into another page, use the optional third parameter of this template to specify the title or id of the page where the cell can be found

The following wikitext:

{| class="wikitable" id="population-table"
! Country
! Population
! Area
! Density
|-
| Argentina
| 45,773,884
| 2,796,427
| {{#expr: {{Get cell|B2|population-table}} / {{Get cell|B3|population-table}} round 0 }}
|-
| China
| 1,425,671,352
| 9,600,000
| {{#expr: {{Get cell|C2|population-table}} / {{Get cell|C3|population-table}} round 0 }}
|-
| United States
| 339,996,564
| 9,833,517
| {{#expr: {{Get cell|D2|population-table}} / {{Get cell|D3|population-table}} round 0 }}
|}

Will output the following table:

• Help:Table - General help documentation about tables
• Template:Excerpt - Get the lead section or other parts of pages