Tables

Owned by Eliot Muir

Last updated: Sept 24, 2021

1 min read

Tables were not part of Tim’s original HTML spec. They were invented by Netscape and it’s been a mess ever since. You are better off using div tags and CSS for representing tabular data.

There are all sorts of weird side effects with keyboard actions etc.

Avoid.

Do this instead.

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