Tablizer

Convert HTML to MediaWiki Online

Paste a HTML table below, edit it if you need to, and get MediaWiki back. The conversion runs in your browser, so nothing is uploaded, there is no size limit and there is no signup.

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What HTML is

An HTML table is a table element containing thead and tbody, with th cells for headers and td cells for data.

Web pages, email templates and anything pasted into a CMS.

What MediaWiki is

MediaWiki table markup opens with {| and a class, marks headers with an exclamation mark and rows with |-.

Wikipedia editors and anyone running a MediaWiki install.

What changes when you convert HTML to MediaWiki

The first table in the markup is used. Cell contents are stripped of inline tags and entities are decoded, so <td><b>Total</b>&nbsp;</td> arrives as Total. Nested tables inside a cell are not descended into.

The wikitable class is applied, which is what gives the table borders and header shading on Wikipedia.

What carries over from HTML to MediaWiki

One property of the HTML has no home in MediaWiki, and it is worth knowing which before you convert.

Anything visual in the HTML - weight, alignment, colour, column widths - has no counterpart in MediaWiki and is dropped. The values are what survives.

The identifier 007 comes out of the MediaWiki as 007. Reading it as a number would have made it 7, and an id that changes value is worse than one that stays text.

The role "Analyst, data" survives with its comma, in one cell rather than split across two. That is the first thing to check in any converted table, and the usual place a MediaWiki file goes wrong.

The quotes around Jonah "Jo" Pryce are left as a plain quote character in the MediaWiki.

A worked example

Three rows of staff data, with an identifier that has a leading zero, a value containing a comma, a value containing quotes and one blank cell. Those are the four places formats disagree, so they are the four places to look.

HTML in
<table>
  <thead>
    <tr><th>id</th><th>name</th><th>role</th><th>started</th><th>hours</th></tr>
  </thead>
  <tbody>
    <tr><td>007</td><td>Halima Yusuf</td><td>Analyst, data</td><td>2024-03-15</td><td>38.5</td></tr>
    <tr><td>012</td><td>Jonah "Jo" Pryce</td><td>Engineer</td><td>2025-11-02</td><td></td></tr>
    <tr><td>104</td><td>Wei Chen</td><td>Manager</td><td>2023-06-30</td><td>40</td></tr>
  </tbody>
</table>
MediaWiki out
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! id
! name
! role
! started
! hours
|-
| 007
| Halima Yusuf
| Analyst, data
| 2024-03-15
| 38.5
|-
| 012
| Jonah "Jo" Pryce
| Engineer
| 2025-11-02
| 
|-
| 104
| Wei Chen
| Manager
| 2023-06-30
| 40
|}

Questions

How do I convert HTML to MediaWiki?

Paste your HTML into the box above or drop the file onto it. Check the table in the grid, then copy or download the MediaWiki from the output panel. It takes one step and the data never leaves your browser.

Is there a limit on file size?

No. The work happens on your own machine, so the limit is your machine's memory rather than an upload cap. A file with tens of thousands of rows converts in a second or two.

Is my data uploaded anywhere?

No. The parsing and generating are done by JavaScript running on this page. You can watch the network tab while you convert and see that nothing is sent.

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