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This template can be useful when building a sortable table in which a column contains both numbers and text. This template should be applied to every number in the column and should not be used outside of sortable tables. Currently, the template works for numbers between −10 308 and 10 308. Numbers outside this range will sort above or below ...
It is easy to use now. It is a template to automatically add row numbers to sortable tables. The row numbers will not be sorted when columns of data are sorted. A possible note to add above a table: Row numbers are static. Other columns are sortable. This allows ranking of any column. See list of articles transcluding {{static row numbers}}.
See Help:Sortable tables about rank columns and row numbers. See also: Commons:Convert tables and charts to wiki code or image files. See the section on updating List of countries by incarceration rate. Launch the visual editor. In the column you are copying click the header cell or whatever top cell you want.
The two most commonly used classes are "wikitable" and "wikitable sortable"; the latter allows the reader to sort the table by clicking on the header cell of any column. |+ caption Required for accessibility purposes on data tables, and placed only between the table start and the first table row. ! header cell Optional.
If a table is created in Visual Editor, the dialog includes a checkbox to "Make table sortable". If you check this box, then a reader can sort the table by any column, by clicking on the header cell for that column. Existing tables, or tables created in wikitext can be made sortable by adding the wikitable sortable class to the top of the table:
Sorting by numerical value, date, etc. See Help:Sortable tables#Numerical sorting problems and meta:Help:Sorting#Sort modes Equal rank If you simply code as the second parameter an indicator that two items are equally ranked, e.g. "4=", the template interpreter will treat this as an additional parameter (i.e. parameter 4, which it will then not ...
Something has happened to the sortable table columns. They have become much wider, leading the table at Snooker world ranking points 2011/2012 to go off the side of the page. In Firefox this isn't so bad because you can at least scroll along. However, in Internet Explorer 8 it is impossible to even scroll along meaning we lose half the table.
TemplateData for Number table sorting hidden ... generates a hidden sort key that allows numbers to sort correctly when a column of a sortable table needs to be ...