Chapter 6
Tables: How Nature (and the W3C) Intended
In this chapter:
- Introducing how tables work
- Using borders, padding, and spacing
- Creating accessible tables
- Enhancing tables with CSS
- Designing tables for web page layout
The great table debate
Tables were initially intended as a means of displaying tabular data online, enabling web designers to rapidly mark up things such as price lists, statistical comparisons, specification lists, spreadsheets, charts, forms, and so on (the following example shows a simple table, taken from www.infoq.com ...
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