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Charts and tables are graphic elements that present information to readers in a visually appealing way.

This article discusses how to create some of the most common charts and tables in use on Judgepedia.

First, some examples of pages that use charts:

• State Supreme Court justices
• Female chief justices of state supreme courts

Complex chart

Here's an example:

Name	Appointed	Term expires	Appointed by	Party affiliation
Warren Matthews	1977	2010	Jay Hammond (Republican)	-
Robert Eastaugh	1994	2018	Walter Hickel (Republican)	-

The easiest way to build a chart like that is to copy the code from this page and make changes as needed to the names of the columns and the contents of the rows.

A few notes, though:

• The cells in the rows are divided by two pipes, like this: ||
• The final cell in each row doesn't need a closing set of pipes.
• Wikipedia's article on colors includes the hex triplet numbers you can use to create a different color in the header.

Here's the same chart as above but with a different color:

Name	Appointed	Term expires	Appointed by	Party affiliation
Warren Matthews	1977	2010	Jay Hammond (Republican)	-
Robert Eastaugh	1994	2018	Walter Hickel (Republican)	-

And here it is again with a different color (ouch!) in every column header:

Name	Appointed	Term expires	Appointed by	Party affiliation
Warren Matthews	1977	2010	Jay Hammond (Republican)	-
Robert Eastaugh	1994	2018	Walter Hickel (Republican)	-

Simpler charts

To arrange names in columns and rows as in the article, Female chief justices of state supreme courts, you can just copy the code from that page and work with it in a different article.

Here's another example

Because

I like to make charts

And I think

They make

It easier to read some things.

Not always, though.

Another way to arrange data in rows and columns that is very simple is like this:

Court	Active judges	Retired judges
North Dakota	18	14
South Dakota	11	22
Nebraska	15	32