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Note, rowspan="2" and colspan="2" can be used on cells to span multiple rows and columns. Header cells are created with ! Header cell, which can be column or row headers. Data cells are created with | Data cell. A new column can be added by adding another cell to the first row.
The wikitext must be correct. An incorrect rowspan organization can break sorting, cause weird table formatting, move data to the wrong column, etc. See examples below. When sorted all the rows are filled. Tables without rowspan are much easier to maintain by less experienced editors, and by editors who are stopping by only once to edit the table.
Another alternative is to copy the entire table from the displayed page, paste the text into a spreadsheet, move the columns as you will. Then reconstruct the table lines with a formula. This formula handles a three column table, reconstructing a single line.
For complex layouts, rowspan and colspan may be used, but again it is sometimes simpler and more maintainable to use nested tables. Nested tables must start on a new line. In the following example, five different tables are shown nested inside the cells of a sixth, main table. None has any header cells.
The template is compatible with collapsible tables, and cells using colspan or rowspan, in which case place the colspan/rowspan attribute between ! and {{diagonal split header 2 ...}}. It is not compatible with sortable tables, as the sort arrows are not drawn, but this problem can be resolved by using a second header row.
Column numbers up to col29 are supported. A table can have more columns but they cannot be aligned with this method. On tables using rowspan or colspan, using the classes may not work well on those rows because the alignment appears in wrong cells.
A Georgia man was arrested Monday in the 1985 murder of two people at a church, after the original suspect spent two decades in prison.
The first uses colspan="2" <-- This row has three table data cells, but one spans two rows because it uses rowspan="2" <-- This row has only two table data cells, because its first is being taken up