Editing Help:Collapsing tables and more (section)

===Sortable tables===
Collapsible tables can be combined with the [[Help:Sortable tables|sortable tables]] functionality without difficulty.  However, because the hide/show button is placed with <code>mw-collapsible</code> in the right header cell, its positioning can look a bit peculiar if the cell is not wide enough:

{|class="wikitable" style="margin:0.5em auto;width:80%"
|-
!scope="col" width="60%"|Code entered
!scope="col" width="40%"|Output produced
|-
|width="60%"|
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext">{|class="wikitable mw-collapsible sortable" style="width:5em"
<!--table width too narrow, on purpose here-->
|-
! Name !! Score
|-
| John || 59
|-
| Bob || 72
|}</syntaxhighlight>
|width="40%"|
{|class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible" style="width:5em"
<!--table width too narrow, on purpose here-->
|-
! Name !! Score
|-
| John || 59
|-
| Bob || 72
|}
|}

A possible alternative is to add a caption over the table. See the following example.

{|class="wikitable" style="margin:0.5em auto;width:80%"
|-
!scope="col" width="60%"|Code entered
!scope="col" width="40%"|Output produced
|-
|width="60%"|
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext">{|class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible" 
|+ class="nowrap" | Caption 
! Name !! Score
|-
| John || 59
|-
| Bob || 72
|}</syntaxhighlight>
|width="40%"|
{|class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible" 
|+ class="nowrap" | Caption 
! Name !! Score
|-
| John || 59
|-
| Bob || 72
|}
|}