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What qualifies tabular data? GMail uses a table for laying out emails, is that tabular? (Maybe it is, I don't know, which is why I'm asking.) What if you have
by jdwissler 13y ago
What qualifies tabular data?
GMail uses a table for laying out emails, is that tabular? (Maybe it is, I don't know, which is why I'm asking.)
What if you have an element which has 5 children that are in a row and you want the one in the middle to take up all the remaining width while the rest just take the width they need? I'm actually curious because I haven't figured it out. (Besides using table cells that is)
- lowboy 13y agoIt's tricky to define exactly, but I like this article's take on it: http://webdesign.about.com/od/tables/a/aa122605.htm http://webdesign.about.com/od/tables/a/aa122605.htm A list of emails can be thought of as tabular data. In Gmail, you have columns (selection, star, important, participants, subject, and date) with one row per email. That's a table without explicit headers. Yeah, with current css specs in browsers you need to resort to table-cell stylings like display:table-row and display:table-cell. But that can be done without using actual <table> elements.
- jdwissler 13y agoI see. I don't think we actually disagree on anything, but were just thinking of different semantics. I should have qualified that I rarely use the table tag and use display:table-cell. I was thinking of them as effectively the same as using a table for layout.