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The "col" classes never effect the header cells. The "default" classes also effect the header cells if wikitable class is not used. With the wikitable class header cell content is always centered unless individually adjusted. See template for more info, limitations, examples.
An "image" in the form of a table is much more convenient to edit than an uploaded image. If all the cells in a row are empty the cells still show up. If the header cell is also empty for that row all the cells show up, but they are narrow. That can be fixed with a simple <br> in one of the cells. That is what is done here:
Recall that, outside an image-table, the parameter "right|" causes an image to align (either) above or below an infobox, but would not float alongside the infobox. For that reason, many images beside an infobox are typically set as "left|" to align along the left-margin, rather than floated into the center of the page.
header cell Optional. Each header cell starts with a new line and a single exclamation mark (!), or several header cells can be placed consecutively on the same line, separated by double exclamation marks (!!). |-new row To begin a new row of cells, use a single vertical bar (|) and a hyphen (-). | new cell in row
Much of WP:Manual of Style § Article titles, headings, and sections also pertains to table headers: Use sentence case; avoid redundantly including the subject's name in a header; do not put images in the header (including flag icons), unless this is the best way to present tabular information in a particular case; and do not use questions as ...
The ! indicates cells that are header cells. In order for a table to be sortable, the first row(s) of a table need to be entirely made up out of these header cells. You can learn more about the basic table syntax by taking the Introduction to tables for source editing.
One of several templates for styling individual table cells with standard contents and colors. Template parameters [Edit template data] This template prefers inline formatting of parameters. Parameter Description Type Status text 1 text to be displayed instead of the default; if this doesn't work put the text after the template, possibly with a vertical bar | in between Default (template ...
See the Width section of Help:Table.To summarize, max-width is the preferred way to limit widths on tables. It works on divs too. Note though that in both tables and divs there needs to be spaces in long lines of text or wikitext.