Let’s start by redefining how table data should be expressed in HTML.Īs stated earlier, since table data is essentially an ordered collection of items, it seems natural to use ordered lists. In terms of hacks, you can alter the display property of tables and use any layout you can do with CSS in general, but that doesn’t seem semantically correct. This may be sufficient for usage by a screen that fits the whole table width, but in reality, this does not apply for the myriad of devices that exist today.
When using HTML tables, the layout of the data is hardcoded as rows and columns (e.g. Table of purchase order detailsĪn item, in this case, is a purchase order detail, that has attributes such as part number, part description, etc. The format gives you a birds-eye view to quickly grasp and examine large quantities of data.įor example, here’s a hypothetical table of purchase order details, that you may see in a purchasing application. Items are laid out in rows, with the same data attributes in the same columns, with the rows often sorted with one or more sortable attributes. Starting with the basics, a table in HTML is a layout format for displaying collections of items through a matrix of rows and columns. “Really Responsive Tables using CSS3 Flexbox” by Vasan Subramanian shows an idea of wrapping columns, implemented with Flexbox.Įven though many interesting ideas have been proposed, libraries like bootstrap opt for horizontal scrolling for small screens.Īs we now have CSS Grid, I think we could have a better common alternative to horizontal scrolling. “Responsive Table Data Roundup” first published in 2012 by Chris Coyier, has things summarized very neatly (including a 2018 update). Responsive tables aren’t a new topic, and there are many solutions that have already been proposed. A Little History of Responsive HTML Tables
In this article, I use CSS Grid Layout Module and CSS Properties (and no Javascript) to layout tables that wrap columns depending on screen width, which further changes to a card based on layout for small screens.įor the impatient, look at the following pen for a prototypical implementation. Vid.The most popular way to display a collection of similar data is to use tables, but HTML tables have the drawback of being difficult to make responsive. dynamically set the page height according to video length Vid = document.getElementById('video1') // select video element SetHeight = document.getElementById("set-height"), // get page height from video duration
PlaybackConst = 1000, // lower numbers = faster playback Var frameNumber = 0, // start video at frame 0 Var x = document.getElementById("myTopnav") * Toggle between adding and removing the "responsive" class to topnav when the user clicks on the icon */ Your browser does not support this video.Ĭopyright © - Alle rechten voorbehouden Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Many desktop publishing packages and web page editors now use Lorem Ipsum as their default model text, and a search for 'lorem ipsum' will uncover many web sites still in their infancy. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to using 'Content here, content here', making it look like readable English. It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout. Both have not yet worked for me unfortunately. I assume I have a make a div for the both of them and then give it a background? or do I make a section for it. You can see the background (of a video) behind my two columns (picture).
Pretty new to html/css, so I have a question.
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