There's a third party content site that I have to "EMBED" via dynamic content, I don't know Ajax or Jquery at the moment so I am wondering if its possible to shift a table cell down to a new line essentially creating a new row.
The embed ends up with:
<table>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</table>
There were no classes or ID's placed in the table, however it is the only table on the page and it has way too much content to fit on one line, this is for a mobile website so I've got to make the whole page 320 pixels wide.
Is it possible using CSS alone?
I can't insert new HTML, the content is dynamically created from a secure server that we don't have access to, but we use an API key in order to access.. mediaqueries work though.
I'm currently trying to experiment with something along the lines of:
td {clear:both;}
You can set the td to display:block; then they'll all be under eachother.
HTML
<table>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td>2</td>
</tr>
</table>
CSS
td{
display:block;
}
See here: http://jsfiddle.net/hDsts/
Other solution (when display: block; not works) is to use inline-block:
CSS
td {
display: inline-block;
}
Related
How can I make a table with multiple rows that have different number of columns (but not always the same number .... columns can be added and removed dynamically) but still have the cells in each row take the full width of the row?
Of course, I'd like to use only CSS and avoid a Javascript solution.
Here is an example of my issue:
table{
border: solid;
}
td{
background-color: black;
color: white;
}
.fullWidth{
/* width: 100%; doesn't work */
}
<table>
<tr>
<td>
cell 1
</td>
<td>
cell 2
</td>
<td>
cell 3
</td>
<td>
cell 4
</td>
<td>
Cells are added and removed dynamically
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class='fullWidth'>
this cell should be the full width of the table
</td>
</tr>
</table>
EDIT: I was trying to keep the question short and to the point, so I left out most of the details. :P
I am using a table because I am using Bootstrap's responsive tables on a jQuery Datatable, and I need to insert a custom row to add details to some of the rows. (Bootstrap's responsive tables already utilizes the default "child" row feature of Datatables, or I would have just used that)
Judging by the comments, what I'm asking isn't possible with CSS alone. I'm going to open a new question to address the Javascript solution with bootstrap responsive tables.
So the answer to the question on this page is: no, it is not possible.
EDIT: as long as you set the colspan correctly on the first inserted row, it looks like bootstrap's responsive table takes care of the rest. 👍
I have an html table that is created using constant contact and and I would like to make it responsive and fit the container div holding it.
Here is the demo
I tried the following but this doesn't work as well
<table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
Table aren't great at being responsive and keeping their layout - so it's probably best to override their styles on smaller screens, like:
http://jsfiddle.net/wildandjam/E32Cq/
#media all and (max-width:768px){
table,tr, td, tbody, td p table div, table table{
width:100%!important;
float:left;
clear:both;
display:block;
text-align:center;
}
table img {
max-width:100%;
height:auto;
}
}
Pure css way to make a table fully responsive, no JavaScript is needed. Check demo here Responsive Tables
Here is css
<style>
.tablewrapper{width: 95%; overflow-y: hidden; overflow-x: auto;
background-color:green; height: auto; padding: 5px;}
</style>
And here is HTML Part
<div class="tablewrapper">
<table class="responsive" width="98%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" border="1">
<tr>
<td>Name</td>
<td>Email</td>
<td>Phone</td>
<td>Address</td>
<td>Contact</td>
<td>Mobile</td>
<td>Office</td>
<td>Home</td>
<td>Residency</td>
<td>Height</td>
<td>Weight</td>
<td>Color</td>
<td>Desease</td>
<td>Extra</td>
<td>DOB</td>
<td>Nick Name</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
Additionally use can use jquery to add tablerapper on page load, if you don't want to manually add tableWrapper div around your table. Just use
$().ready(function(e){
$(document).find("table.responsive").each(function(e){
$(this).wrap("<div class="tablewrapper"></div>")
})
})
It'll be much easier if you don't use html elements that aren't designed to do this job. Tables are used for presenting data, not to hold layout.
If you really need to use tables you'll have to hide and show rows with media queries, which is a pretty bad practice.
If you decide to go with divs, you can float them setting different width in media queries depends on screen size.
I've been looking to your case and I have two answers for you.
The first one is the answer to the question "¿how to make your html table responsive?" (note: Spanish article, you may need chrome page translator for example)
The second one is "you should considere a more semantic markup" (tableless) for that content. Instead of using <table> you should use <ul><li> as follows:
<ul class="itemList">
<li class="item">
<img src="" alt="" />
<p>From</p>
<p class="price">25€<span>per person sharing</span></p>
</li>
</ul>
Then use external CSS to apply style:
.itemList {width: 100%} /*probably not necessary*/
.item {display:inline-block; width: 33%; max-width: /*here your desired max width*/}
.price span {display: inline-block} /*no cells, no floats = no problems*/
Finally you can use #media queries to creat your CSS breakpoints:
#media only screen and (max-width: 480px) {
.item {display:inline-block; width: auto; max-width:100%;}/*just as an example*/
}
Just let me know if you have any further questions
I try to make a lite rwd table extend without any other dependency libraries (ex: jQuery):
https://github.com/sean1093/html-rwd-table
You can simply use as follow:
<div id="myTable"></div>
var myTable = new rwdTableExtend("myTable");
myTable.initTable();
You can use bootstrap to make table responsive.
Define class as table-responsive to make table as responsive.
<div class="table-responsive">
<table class="table">
...
</table>
</div>
TL;DR:
I have a solution that works well for a lot of table implementations, given that you are formatting your tables well (table>thead>tr>th^^tbody>tr>td). Find my CodePen here. Depending on the data in your table, this may be a good mobilizing solution.
The Director's Cut
See my CodePen here.
This solution assumes you have built your tables nicely, meaning you are using thead with th and tbody with td. For example:
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>A</th>
<th>S</th>
<th>L</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>33</td>
<td>M</td>
<td>United States</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
Given that the table data isn't characterized by columns and columns of numeric values, this JS / CSS solution works well. You can see it in action on my employer's docs pages (SmartyStreets Documentation) and in human readable form on the CodePen snippet I built for it here. To see it working, resize the screen. Breakpoints are set differently on each implementation, because consistency. Here's how to implement it.
Tables are fed to the tableMobilizer function. Given that it is built on jQuery, this can be done for all tables on the page like so:
var tables = $(table);
tableMobilizer(tables);
You can definitely be more selective about how you mobilize tables with your selector if you need to be.
This will generate a new set of tables for each table passed in and append them after their respective source table. Each new table contains a row of a source table which is transformed with a 90 degree CCW rotation and paired with the table headings.
Old tables are dynamically classed with .hidden-small-down and new tables are classed with .hidden-medium-up for your CSS media queries.
New tables come classed with .mobile-tables (for a collection of all mobile tables generated by a single source table), .mobile-table (for each mobile table representation of a single source table row), .mobile-table-row (for a row in a mobile table), .mobile-table-key (for the first column of a mobile table), and .mobile-table-value (for the second column of a mobile table).
In your CSS, set up your media queries to hide / show the appropriate table views:
#media only screen and (min-width: 768px) {
.hidden-medium-up {
display: none;
}
}
#media only screen and (max-width: 768px) {
.hidden-small-down {
display: none;
}
}
With the media queries implemented, styling the tables is left to your discretion.
After Credits Scene
This is not a silver bullet solution. Visualizations using tabular data can be very complicated. As mentioned above, this solution isn't great for column-heavy tables. It also doesn't handle col and row spanning. As always, seriously consider whether or not you actually need to use a table in your layout (beyond the scope of this comment). If you do, this may be a good solution for mobilizing your tables.
Use media queries and width of your container and font sizes should be in percentage.
The problem here is actually with your table. As you can see, one of the bottom tables has an explicit width set, which is forcing the rest of your table to follow suit:
<table id="content_LETTER.BLOCK1" style="height: 21px;" border="0" width="798" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
Notice the width="798". This will default to pixels. Get rid of any explicitly defined widths and the table should become closer to being responsive.
However, as others have said - responsive tables are tricky. Especially ones containing so many other nested tables (as in your example). You'll also need to address the responsiveness of any images within those tables, as these will likely force the table to be bigger than it needs to be. I would re-visit your whole layout here, and try and adopt a more responsive-friendly element to use throughout your page.
Update:
Please note that the reason #wildandjam's answer 'works' is essentially because he's overwritten the set width of all of your table elements. It's a quick fix but in my opinion it doesn't bridge the gap of understanding.
Is it possible to rebuild a table looking like this:
<table>
<tr>
<td>information 1</td>
<td>information 2</td>
</tr>
</table>
to something like this with CSS?:
<table>
<tr>
<td>information 1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>information 2</td>
</tr>
</table>
Why I am asking is because this table, which is filled with content in a div, doesn't look nice when I minimize the div for a mobile display.
UPDATE, Reason why I need to do this:
We are building a website for a customer that want's responsive design. The "problem" is that the customer dosen't know html/css that good, so he/she uses a WYSIWYG-editor when providing the content to pages. And of course, he/she knows Microsoft Office, and build the content like it's done in that program, with tables.
You can effectively wrap tds by using media queries and applying css to float the cell into what looks like the next row. You'll want to provide some nice visual queues to help people figure out what they're seeing, though. Here's a fiddle demonstration – resize the preview window.
Using your original markup, and applying the following CSS will wrap the second td when the window is less than 400px wide:
td {width: 200px; border: 1px solid black;}
#media screen and (max-width: 400px) {
td {
width: 100%;
float: left;
}
}
You cannot do that with css (at least not easily), as that only affects the presentation of markup. You could certainly do it with javascript however if you detect that the user is coming to your site using a mobile browser. The question of how you do these things is far out of the scope of your original question however.
A lot of web sites have a mobile version and non mobile version. There are prewritten scripts out there to detect the user-agent in PHP, Javascript, etc etc.
I understand you problem, this would solve it. (ugly fix)
td {
display: block;
clear: both;
}
Rather use divs and css, not tables at all ;)
I currently have a java script solution to make an entire table row clickable. I need to support the non-java script folks so is this possible without java script?
I can add a a href tag to each cell but that seems like overkill and it also only lets the user click on the contents of the cell.
Any other alternatives to turn an entire table row into a hyperlink?
Not without putting a link inside each cell unfortunately, otherwise it's not valid markup.
You can still make it appear like the "row" is clickable though by making the links display as blocks so they take up the entire cell.
e.g. (jsFiddle)
<table>
<tr>
<td>Some text</td>
<td>more text</td>
<td>more text</td>
</tr>
</table>
tr:hover { background: #ddd; }
td { border: 1px solid #000; border-collapse: collapse; }
td a { display: block; padding: 5px 20px; }
I realise this is an old thread with a perfectly legit solution in Rich's answer. There is however also a way to do this without javascript AND without duplicating your link * the number of columns AND keeping your markup/CSS valid. It took me a while to figure out, so I thought I'd post it here for others that also happen to end up on this thread like I did.
Put the link in the first column:
<table class="search_results">
<tr>
<td>Some text</td>
<td>more text</td>
<td>more text</td>
</tr>
</table>
This is perfectly fine markup, so your only real issue is getting that link to span the width of your table. I did it like this using pretty standard CSS:
table.search_results a {position:absolute;display:block;width:98%;}
Change the width to whatever you want and in principle you are done and dusted. So that is all relatively easy, however if you, like me, have a fluid/responsive layout, and also some standard styling on your links plus some padding on your tables, you are going to need these rules (copied necessary from above and added extra).
table.search_results td:first-child {padding:0;}
table.search_results a {position:absolute;display:block;width:98%;max-width:1272px;font-weight:normal;color:#000;padding:.5em;}
table.search_results a:hover {background:none;}
table.search_results tr:hover {border-color:#25505b;background:#b5d6dd;}
To explain:
The first rule removes all padding on my first td ONLY. By default the padding on my td is .5em.
The second rule adds the same padding back on the link, otherwise you end up with misaligned cell contents. It also corrects a few standard styles I have on my a to ensure the columns all look the same. You could do this the other way around too (add the link styles to your td).
With the last two rules I get rid of the default hover effect on my links, then put it on the tr for any tables with the right class.
This works in the browsers I care about, but you should of course test in those you care about :) Hope I help save someone some minutes with this writeup!
Various browsers may or may not allow you to wrap the entire TR with an href, HOWEVER, even if the browser supports this, it is not valid (X)HTML and the results will vary from browser to browser in a very unreliable way (updates could change behavior as well).
Your best bet is to either use JS, or put an href inside of each cell.
I have an empty table row just for separation between rows.
<tr>
<td colspan="5"></td>
</tr>
It's rendered in IE, FF, Opera and Safari. The question is, whether I should put some content inside of it or it is okay to leave it as it is?
Like:
<tr>
<td colspan="5"> </td>
</tr>
Well you could put an as column content to make sure the rows are displayed. The better way is to use CSS for spacing though.
Semantically, does the empty row serve a purpose, or is it purely for layout? If the latter, it may be worth considering dropping the empty row, and providing the separation via CSS. E.g.
<tr class="separate-below">
<td>Data before separater</td><td>More Data</td>...
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Data after separater</td><td>More Data</td>...
</tr>
With the following in the stylesheet:
TR.separate-below TD,TR.separate-below TH {
border-bottom: 1em solid white; /* use the background colour of a cell here */
}
Alternatively, you can use multiple <tbody> elements to group blocks of rows together (adding rules="groups" to the table element causes <tbody> elements to gain a horizontal border at top and bottom, and <colgroup> element to gain a border to their left and right):
<table rules="groups">
<thead>
<tr><th>Header</th><th>Header</th>...</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr><td>Data</td><td>Data</td>...</tr>
<tr><td>Data</td><td>Data</td>...</tr>
...
</tbody>
<tbody>
<tr><td>Data</td><td>Data</td>...</tr>
...
</tbody>
...
</table>
As you can see in this example from W3Schools using the is the best way to do what you want.
This is a very old question, but if somebody still needs a solution (problem exists with display: table-cell or table-row elements)
here's the solution:
.emptyElement:after{
content: "\00a0";
}
I wanted to add my solution which is a modification of #Dariusz Sikorski solution.
td:empty:after, th:empty:after {
content: "\00a0";
}
if you want to put content inside, i would use a no-breaking-space: , rather than a normal blank
You may have already tried this but if your trying to add some space in between rows have you tried adding some padding.
CELLSPACING=Length (spacing between cells)
CELLPADDING=Length (spacing within cells)
Karl
To ensure that empty cells are displayed the following CSS can be used:
table { empty-cells:show; }
You can use multiple tbody tags to group table rows. It's totally valid and more semantic.