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Why do people still like and use tables in HTML? [closed]
I meet web developers from different levels of experience and backgrounds and some of them like tables for everything. Divs are great and tables are to be used only when it is required.
Can anyone ...
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2answers
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Best aesthetically solution to overflowing data in a table
I have the following table which I created as follows:
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
html {
background-color: #fff;
}
body{
text-align:center;
}
...
4
votes
1answer
108 views
How to add a details link on a table when each cell is already a link?
I have a table on which each cell is already a link to a different section (eg. the row contains 'Name', 'Location' and 'Type' columns and clicking the name cell takes you to the Show action of that ...
4
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1answer
1k views
UI Patterns for tables with many columns
I have a table with many columns,this table displays without scroll only on 21 inch and larger monitors.
If there is a ui pattern for tables with many columns?
3
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1answer
511 views
Using JQuery DataTables to display many columns
We have a large document archive. It is built similarly to how a Cassandra Database would store items having column names and column values stored for each item.
This can lead to having way to many ...
4
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3answers
276 views
A good way to display tables with sub-headlines
We are developing a web tool to allow users to combine different HTML templates to project variants. Each template has specific settings that can be combined with the project variant.
The table ...
2
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1answer
178 views
Long content in Tables
What is the best way maximize readability when displaying variations of long/short text within table?
5
votes
1answer
303 views
empty cells in accessible html tables
For an html data table in which each row represents an item (such as an email) would screen-reader users prefer empty table cells to be empty or to have a placeholder like a dash?
In my brief ...
3
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4answers
724 views
How do I make a table row on a web page look clickable?
I have a simple web-based report presented as a table:
Some rows are clickable, others are not (it can be seen with the third column. Greater than 0 means the row can be clicked and expanded in a ...
2
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4answers
718 views
Displaying a large data set in a table cell
What is the best way to display a large data set, e.g. 50 words, in a table cell? I am thinking maybe a linkable piece of text such that when clicked, displays a popup box with the full text. ...
3
votes
1answer
391 views
HTML table cell wrapping issue
One of the problems in a tabular representation of data, is text wrapping inside cells. There are some options available, like:
Fixing the width of the columns, and enlarging the rows height to ...
8
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4answers
500 views
How to correctly encode a leaderboard with a gap in HTML
I want to display a leaderboard like so:
1 - John 232342
2 - Mary 45234
3 - Luke 234
59 - You 45
It's an ordered list but I can't make an ordered list that jumps from 3 to an arbitrary ...
