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    <p>Hi all it's been a while since I've asked something, this is something that has been bothering me for a while, the question itself is in the title:</p> <blockquote> <p>What's your preferred way of writing HTML tables that have vertical headers?</p> </blockquote> <p>By vertical header I mean that the table has the header (<code>&lt;th&gt;</code>) tag on the left side (generally)</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>Header 1</strong> data data data<br> <strong>Header 2</strong> data data data<br> <strong>Header 3</strong> data data data</p> </blockquote> <p>They look like this, so far I've come up with two options</p> <h2>First Option</h2> <pre> <code> &lt;table id="vertical-1"&gt; &lt;caption&gt;First Way&lt;/caption&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;th&gt;Header 1&lt;/th&gt; &lt;td&gt;data&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;data&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;data&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;th&gt;Header 2&lt;/th&gt; &lt;td&gt;data&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;data&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;data&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;th&gt;Header 2&lt;/th&gt; &lt;td&gt;data&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;data&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;data&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/table&gt; </code> </pre> <p>The main advantage of this way is that you have the headers right (actually left) next to the data it represents, what I don't like however is that the <code>&lt;thead&gt;</code>, <code>&lt;tbody&gt;</code> and <code>&lt;tfoot&gt;</code> tags are missing, and there's no way to include them without breaking the nicelly placed together elements, which lead me to the second option.</p> <h2>Second Option</h2> <pre> <code> &lt;style type="text/css"&gt; #vertical-2 thead,#vertical-2 tbody{ display:inline-block; } &lt;/style&gt; &lt;table id="vertical-2"&gt; &lt;caption&gt;Second Way&lt;/caption&gt; &lt;thead&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;th colspan="3"&gt;Header 1&lt;/th&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;th colspan="3"&gt;Header 2&lt;/th&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;th colspan="3"&gt;Header 3&lt;/th&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/thead&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;row 1&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;row 1&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;row 1&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;data&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;data&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;data&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;data&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;data&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;data&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/tbody&gt; &lt;tfoot&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td colspan="4"&gt;Footer&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/tfoot&gt; &lt;/table&gt; </code> </pre> <p>The main advantage here is that you have a fully descriptive html table, the drawbacks are that proper representation needs a bit of CSS for the <code>tbody</code> and <code>thead</code> tags and that the relation between the headers and data isn't very clear as I had my doubts when creating the markup.</p> <hr> <p>So, both ways render the table how it should, here a pitcure:</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/s0YDr.png" alt="render"><br> With the headers on the left or right side if you would prefer it, so, any suggestions, alternatives, browser issues?</p>
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