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Creating beautiful HTML tables with CSS

Dom (dcode) on July 20, 2020

It's easy to make your HTML tables look great - in today's post, we're gonna take a look at around 30 lines of CSS to do just that! Video...
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Vesa Piittinen • Edited

If you want your borders to look sharp on high resolution displays you can use thin instead of 1px :)

Update! This has apparently changed at some point and you only get regular 1px now (at least on iPhone). But you can use 0.5px instead to get the same effect.

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Dom (dcode)

Had no idea about this! Thanks 😊

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Keff

Nice, did not know about this! Will be using it for sure :)

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Yaovi

I second you!

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Charanjit Chana

Learn something new everyday!

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Vesa Piittinen

Hmm, now that I paid attention to it this doesn't seem to work anymore on iPhones :(

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Shiraz Coders

Yeah, your right! Thanks🤔

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btlm • Edited

I really love it. I'm bored of tons of bootstrap-like tables and your guide is such a refreshing approach

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Dom (dcode)

Appreciate that mate! Cheers

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Yaovi

I agree with you! Bootstrap is all over the place (even tough i like it and use too)!

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Charanjit Chana

Hard to believe we once used tables to layout entire pages :)

Great example, was there any particular reason you used :nth-of-type instead of nth-child?

I would be interested to know how you would make this responsive if you had a few more columns or where the data is a little longer.

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touibeg mohamed

beautiful css...

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Autumn

Thanks for this! :)

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Kinanee Samson

I didn't like working with tables, maybe I'll consider them with this your post

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webdeasy.de

Pretty 😊

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ZhouYao

I use your code in my website. Thank you so much.

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Denzel Joy Sugayan

what software does he used to code html?

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anthony-grear

I just went through a html lesson on tables, so I used your styling to go along with it. Thanks!

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alexrodriguez2498

excelent article!, nice job.

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Fahim Ullah

Nice work

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Walters Michael

wow these is really nice

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Gjergji Angjeli • Edited

How can i change table with only

full width table head