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I am very much a UX noob, but I need to design a web-page to display a large amount of numeric data, presumably in a grid. The users will be able to enter search criteria using the attributes shown in the grid.

One pattern I have seen is to have a pair of rows above the grid which contain the search mix/max criteria:

+----+----+----+
|    | A  | B  |
+----+----+----+
|min | 2  |    |
+----+----+----+
|max |    | 19 |
+----+----+----+
+----+----+----+
|    | 3  | 17 |
+----+----+----+

How do I lay out the page and how do I capture the minima and maxima? I like the sliders, but I think that to be usable they may be too wide for the column header

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  • Paul, your question seems interesting, but I couldn't quite figure out what the question is, exactly :). Could you clarify? What is the specific problem you're trying to solve?
    – Vitaly Mijiritsky
    Jul 21, 2011 at 12:07
  • I have 15 columns of (mostly) numeric data to display. I want to filter using number and date ranges. My question is how to lay out the page and how to capture the minima and maxima. I like the sliders, but I think that to be usable they may be too wide for the column header.
    – Paul McKenzie
    Jul 21, 2011 at 15:02

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If I understood you right... I would do something like that:

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Numbers under slider are editable on click and show their input field on hover.

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  • I like this but I think that to be usable they may be too wide for the column header.
    – Paul McKenzie
    Jul 21, 2011 at 15:02
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    It doesn't have to be a column header, it can be placed anywhere on page. Fro example on left side of table, or above it.
    – Dmitry Semenov
    Jul 21, 2011 at 15:42
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Take a look at this implementation of data filtering possibilities. Sample a few of your datasets and try to match them to search, filter or min/max slider/select use cases. Are you doing reporting or trying to help people to find and filter the searched dataset?

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  • That example is not capturing range data
    – Paul McKenzie
    Jul 21, 2011 at 15:02
  • Well range is builtin actually.
    – UplusX
    Jul 22, 2011 at 13:26

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