User:Wild lilly/template attempts

This page will be my attempt at understanding templates. I don't learn well just by reading how something is supposed to work. I need to actually fiddle with it to understand. So, here goes...

{| class="toccolours" style="border:1px solid black; border-collapse:collapse;" cellpadding=3 !colspan="4" align=left style="padding:3px;border:1px solid black;"|
 * - valign="top"
 * - valign="top"