Table Design

Designing HTML tables with sorting, filtering, fixed headers, zebra colour feature and so on.

Favorites

These approaches have proved most promising to me…

Examples

Tutorials

Many plain HTML/CSS approaches suffer from the need to have a fixed width specified to the columns.
However using automatic width will result in column width running out of sync for header and body.

Libraries

  • TableFilter – A Javascript library making HTML tables filterable
  • www.datatables.net – DataTables is a plug-in for the jQuery Javascript library which will add advanced interaction controls to any HTML table.
  • www.activewidgets.com – A comercial CSS/JS/AJAX library solution. Also with sortable columns!
    Want to know how to resize fixed rowheader with the mouse? Look here.
  • www.dhtmlx.com
    AJAX powered editable DHTML JavaScript Grid. Heavy CSS/JS/AJAX library suitable for handling large tables up to ten thousands of rows.

Tips and Tricks

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