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This template is for manually adjusting sorting order in sortable tables by specified sortkeys. Usage {{Sort | 1 = {{{sort value}}} | 2 = {{{displayed value}}} }} → {{{displayed value}}} The first parameter is the sortkey; the second parameter is the wikitext of what has to be displayed. By default, this is the sortkey with link brackets:
Template parameters [Edit template data] Parameter Description Type Status Number 1 Your number Number required Format output? format If you do not wish the output to be formatted (i.e. separated by thousand separators), please put "no" in this field. (Without quotation marks.) String optional Debug debug If set to "yes", forces output to include debug data String optional Prefix prefix The ...
Module:Sort table This template extends the functionality of {{ sort list }} to tables, so that tables in articles can be set with a default sorting, and have their rows manually shuffled around every time their data is updated.
For example, to sort the table by the "Text" column and then by the "Numbers" column, you would first click on and sort by the "Numbers" column, the secondary key, and then click on and sort by the "Text" column, primary key. Another method for multi-key sorting is to hold down the ⇧ Shift key while clicking on column headings.
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.
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
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Lists and tables are two different ways to format multiple, similar items on a page. Lists and HTML tables go back to Wikipedia's early days. The current wikicode tables (see the section about tables), which you can edit more easily and even sort, came later. You'll find many more lists than tables on Wikipedia.