Hello i got some data from db and i want to display it using table
First question: should i use or div styled in css ?
Second Question: If i'm using Talbe , i got one col with few lines of text , the lines may be long
how can i style one col to be with a fixed size of the table (like 20%)?
Third : i'm looking for a good link that explain how to design tables the smart way considering cross browser resolution with changing text , (i.e using em ?)
Thank you.
If it's tabular data (columns and more than one row) you'll find it much easier to do with a table. Style the table with css which will let you fix the size of the 'text' column.
Using em for sizing is the best option in my opinion.
One
If you are displaying tabular information that makes sense in rows and columns then YES use a table.
Two
Set the column widths using width="20%" will make it a fixed size
Three
For font-sizes use EM for widths use percentages that way it will work with an resolution screen and obey the users default font size.
If data preview, better is just a table (displaying tabular information)
<td width="200" … as your wish you can give the value, for other column dont specify any value.
http://kyleschaeffer.com/best-practices/css-font-size-em-vs-px-vs-pt-vs/
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I have four cells on one table and another table with about eight
cells.
I have set the max-width to 300px on all cells. Now the problem I face
is that the cells do not drop to a second row if the page is too
small. (Which is in every matter at the moment haha)
I was wondering how I would go about adding dynamic rows to make the extra content beyond the page width, drop below into a new row?
All the code can be seen in the Developers tools for the following website
(Cells/Rows in the products section is the problem I am facing.)
Kind regards,
Jesse M.
Ohh my sweet summer child,
The <table> element is "designed" to behave that way. The table will try to cramp up all the columns in the possible space and based on various css and html attributes, hide/overflow/cramp-up the data in columns, But never will it allow the columns of one row to flow down to another row.
So you are left with a lot of options using CSS and HTML elements.
If you are into frameworks, I recommend Bootstrap that is designed to work exactly that way, and use the provided col-xx-x classes for the elements that need to be in a row at some screen width, and "drop below into a new row" on other screen width.
I would like to make email responsive, but I have some problems with data table (no layout table). The deal is make 2 tables : one for desktop and another for mobile. Until there, no problem I can hide/show the table depending on the screen size. But I have a problem when displaying mobile table.
Take a look at this codepen ...
When the mobile table is displayed I would like the 2nd column has an "auto-size" in order to have the text on one line.
Do you have any ideas ? I can't find the correct css ...
Thank.
The 2nd column for the mobile layout needs a min-width (e.g. 100px).
I.e.
However, this table no longer works in today's email clients, if it ever worked. I have tested it using Litmus and Outlook (any), Gmail, iPhones - all have critical faults.
A much better way is to use one table - easier for maintenance as well - and you can either keep it in the old-fashioned datatable manner, or use card UI design to massively improve its readability, flexibility, and accessibility.
The essential features of the single datatable are to use a hybrid structure for the email, three columns, and repeat the header in each column. Then hide the headers for desktops (or show them for mobiles).
Like so:
Read the linked article for full details.
The essential features of the card UI design is to gather all the information for one row together, and display it on multiple lines, using hierarchy and gestalt laws to aid readability.
For example:
If you want to keep text in 2nd column in one line, maybe check this:
Keep a line of text as a single line - wrap the whole line or none at all
To adjust the width of this column, try playing with: width: auto.
Next time consider using responsive Twitter-Bootstrap framework, bro.
is it possible to use CSS3 table to make it look like this
+---A---+---B---+---C---+---D---+---E---+
>>>>+---A---+---B---+---C---+---D---+<<<< ---> case 1
+---A---+---B---+---C---+---D---+---E---+
case 1: need to margin-left the first cell right? is it any code that make auto to margin
+---A---+---B---+---C---+---D---+---E---+
+-----A-----+-------B-------+---C---+-D-+ ---> case 2
case 2: colspan is work on the cell width is same. what if the cell width is vary. Is it possible?
all of this code must be in CSS3 and HTML5 only. No use <table>, <tr>, <td> only <div>
Should I convert to use grid instead of using table?
Thank you.
Use tables if it is tabular data, if it isn't then use something else.
From your example where column widths don't match, and where colspans don't do what you want it's hard to see how the data could be tabular data.
A couple of options, colspan can work if you do it the right way. For example setting a colspan of 2 on normal single span cells would allow you to make other cells span to halfway through another column.
Or if it really isn't tabular data then use DIV's and position them apropriatley.
Using tables, you would not be able to vary the width of one rows cells without affecting the width of all the other rows cells though, im not even sure you can dynamically change colspan once the table has been drawn, never tried it to be honest).
In all honesty I suspect you are really looking to solve this using DIV's, as your data really doesn't seem to fit the tabular data model. Tbular data will generally have headers on columns with data corresponding to those column headers in the appropriate column. Your cells seem to be able to move freely and therefore would not be fixed under any particular column header.
I am guessing from the layout that you are possibly creating some sort of calendar? and events can span any distance of time etc across the columns? In which case I personally would prefer divs, although I know some people would prefer using tables.
I'm working on constructing a table using only divs. I began creating the table using percentages to set column widths, but would prefer to just use table-cell and not have to worry about things that way. Only problem is I'm not guaranteed to have the same number of elements in every row.
http://jsfiddle.net/JWvLX/
This example shows what is currently happening in the top two rows, and what I want to happen if a cell is removed/not present in the bottom two rows.
What exactly do I need to do to accomplish this? Is this possible using only divs for tables or will I be forced to use actual tables to get the desired effect.
There's no equivalent for colspan/rowspan in CSS tables, but this Sitepoint post has some trickery you might be able to use.
I'm creating a table in an asp.net code behind dynamically, and I want to have a footer row that only has 2 cells. The first should span all the columns in the table-1. Is there some way other then keeping track of the # of columns in the table manually for me to set the colspan to be # of all the columns in the table-1?
Preferably a HTML or CSS solution?
Colspan can't be done with CSS. It's structural rather than stylistic so it's pure HTML.
No you can't specify "all but one" as a colspan. The best you can do is colspan="0", which will span the remaining columns in the column group but to take advantage the <colgroup> at the top will need to know the number of columns anyway and be define statically.
See Tables in the HTML spec:
colspan = number [CN]
This attribute specifies the number of
columns spanned by the current cell.
The default value of this attribute is
one ("1"). The value zero ("0") means
that the cell spans all columns from
the current column to the last column
of the column group (COLGROUP)
in which the cell is defined.
But basically this just kicks the can down the street and I don't know what the browser support is like so it doesn't necessarily buy you anything.
You'll either need to know the number of columns when you generate the HTML or use Javascript.
Sorry this isn't an HTML or CSS solution... I'm only suggesting it because I don't think there is an HTML or CSS solution that will work cross-browser/cross-broweser version.
You could convert the table to an Asp:Table and then use the first row's Cells.Count...
But it would probably be more work than tracking the number of columns added the way you're doing it now. BUT it would not depend on Browser support as it would all be in the code-behind.
In case anybody else winds up here in the future, colspan=0 isn't supported in HTML 5. There are more details here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/52355253/18494923
<tr><td colspan="100%">1000</td></tr>
From question: Colspan all columns
Works in IE 7/8 & Firefox 5