Data table examples

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Generic example

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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

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

3 metre springboard[1]
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

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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

References

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  1. ^ Groom 2017, p. 221.