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Data table examples

Useful information incl. markup—not really table data but …

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Generic example

caption text

column header 1	column header 2	column header 3
row header 1	data 1	data 2
row header 2	data 3	data 4

Alt attribute test

Can we add an alt attribute to any image that does not have one? It turns out that we can.

3 metre springboard

Rank	Name	Score
	Kathy Rowlatt (ENG)	147.10
	Beverly Boys (CAN)	134.92
	Susan Knight (AUS)	134.90
4	Madeleine Haswell (WAL)	130.74
5	Robyn Bradshaw (AUS)	130.18
6	Cathy McDonald (CAN)	121.67
7	Betsy Sullivan (JAM)	70.61

Sorting

It turns out that there is no need for leading zeroes or any sorting templates for columns of numbers to be sortable in a table. However, if we want names to be sortable by surname (for example), use 'data-sort-value="surname, forename" | forename surname'

Final results

Rank	Name	Nationality	Distance	Notes
	George Puce	Canada	59.02
	Les Mills	New Zealand	57.84
	Bill Tancred	England	56.68
4	Arthur McKenzie	England	55.34
5	Zigurd Stauts	Canada	55.20
6	Robin Tait	New Zealand	53.82
7	Joe Antunovich	New Zealand	53.50
8	Mike Cushion	England	51.34
9	Mike Lindsay	Scotland	50.94
10	Dave Steen	Canada	50.64
11	John Walters	Wales	48.06
12	Yovan Ochola	Uganda	44.98
13	Imbert Roberts	Saint Lucia	37.28
	Praveen Kumar	India	DNS