Editing Help:Table (section)

=== Vertical headers ===
Sometimes it is desirable (such as in a table predominantly made of numbers) to rotate text such that it proceeds from top to bottom or bottom to top instead of from left to right or right to left.
This can be done with CSS but the easiest way on Wikipedia is to enclose the text of each heading in a '''{{tl|vertical header}}''' template. For example:
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext">
! {{vertical header|Date/Page}}
</syntaxhighlight>
If the text includes an equals sign then replace it with <code><nowiki>{{=}}</nowiki></code>.
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|+ Rotated column headers using {{tlx|vertical header}}
|-
! {{vertical header|Date/Page}}
! {{vertical header|[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games|VG: Project]]}}
! {{vertical header|[[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Video games|VG: Talk]]}}
! {{vertical header|[[Portal:Video games|VG: Portal]]}}
! {{vertical header|[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Article guidelines|VG: Article guidelines]]}}
! {{vertical header|[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Templates|VG: Templates]]}}
! {{vertical header|[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Sources|VG: Sources]]}}
! {{vertical header|[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Assessment|VG: Assessment]]}}
! {{vertical header|[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Cleanup|VG: Cleanup]]}}
! {{vertical header|[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Requests|VG Requests]]}}
|-
! 05/08
| 4266 || 7828 || 7282 || 1105 || 224 || 161 || 916 || 506 || 231
|-
! 04/08
| 4127 || 6190 || 6487 || 1139 || 241 || 205 || 1165 || 478 || 301
|}

If you want to use '''[[Template:Sticky table start|sticky headers]]''' with vertical headers it is important to make the sticky header less tall for cell phone use. '''{{t|abbr}}''' is one way. Also by moving some info to the table caption. See example with various methods at '''{{tl|vertical header}}.'''