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What's your preferred way of writing HTML tables that have vertical headers?
By vertical header I mean that the table has the header (<th>) tag on the left side (generally)
Header 1 data data data
Header 2 data data data
Header 3 data data data
They look like this, so far I've come up with two options
First Option
<table id="vertical-1">
<caption>First Way</caption>
<tr>
<th>Header 1</th>
<td>data</td><td>data</td><td>data</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Header 2</th>
<td>data</td><td>data</td><td>data</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Header 2</th>
<td>data</td><td>data</td><td>data</td>
</tr>
</table>
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 <thead>, <tbody> and <tfoot> 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.
Second Option
<style type="text/css">
#vertical-2 thead,#vertical-2 tbody{
display:inline-block;
}
</style>
<table id="vertical-2">
<caption>Second Way</caption>
<thead>
<tr>
<th colspan="3">Header 1</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<th colspan="3">Header 2</th>
</tr>
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