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A common use is to make a collapsible layout table, which always displays an introduction or summary, but hides the rest of the content from immediate view. The introduction or summary is in the first row, and the content is in subsequent rows. The content is then easily accessible by using the 'show' button.
mw-collapsible also does not require a header row in the table, as collapsible did. Tables will show the "[hide]" / "[show]" controls in the first row of the table (whether or not it is a header row), unless a table caption is present.(see § Tables with captions) Example with a header row
If the first text-word is too long, no text will fit to complete the left-hand side, so beware creating a "ragged left margin" when not enough space remains for text to fit alongside floating-tables. If multiple single image-tables are stacked, they will float to align across the page, depending on page-width.
Regardless of whether wikitable format or HTML is used, the wikitext of the rows within a table, and sometimes even within a collection of tables, may have much in common, e.g.: the basic code for a table row; code for color, alignment, and sorting mode; fixed texts such as units; special formats for sorting
For table markup, it can be applied to whole tables, table captions, table rows, and individual cells. CSS specificity in relation to content should be considered since applying it to a row could affect all that row's cells and applying it to a table could affect all the table's cells and caption, where styles closer to the content can override ...
hide, collapse, collapsed, or mw-collapsed: Uses the mw-collapsible collapsed classes to make the table collapsed with a [show] link to reveal the table. auto or autocollapse: Uses the mw-collapsible autocollapse classes to make the table collapsible, but only collapse it if there are three or more collapsible tables on the page; inner or ...
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The content in question is currently in a table so it seems logical to use collapsible tables but in the Help for Collapse (top and bottom) it mentions it can also be used to collapse complex content that includes tables. Doesn't seem to be any clear indication which is recommended.