Articles Tagged tables

Rotated <table> column headers is something that’s been covered before right here on CSS-Tricks, so shout-out to that for getting me started and helping me achieve this effect. As the article points out, if you aren’t using trigonometry to calculate your table styles, you’ll have to rely on magic numbers and your table will be brittle and any dreams of responsiveness crushed. 

Fortunately, in this case, we can take the trigonometry out and replace it with some careful geometry and … Read article “Rotated Table Column Headers… Now With Fewer Magic Numbers!”

You can’t position: sticky; a <thead></thead>. Nor a <tr></tr>. But you can sticky a <th></th>, which means you can make sticky headers inside a regular ol’ <table></table>. This is tricky stuff, because if you didn’t know this weird quirk, it would be hard to blame you. It makes way more sense to sticky a parent element like the table header rather than each individual element in a row. … Read article “Position Sticky and Table Headers”

How do you make a spreadsheet-like interface responsive without the use of any JavaScript? This is the question I’ve been asking myself all week as I’ve been working on a new project and trying to figure out how to make the simplest spreadsheet possible. I wanted to avoid using a framework and instead, I decided to experiment with some new properties in order to use nothing but a light touch of CSS.… Read article “An Idea for a Simple Responsive Spreadsheet”

The Media Object pattern is: image thingy on the left, heading and text on the right.

That’s what Nicole Sullivan called it and the name stuck. It’s a pretty simple pattern, but like all things web design, it can be done many ways.… Read article “The Media Object, A Bunch of Ways”

You know, like a tic-tac-toe board. I was just pondering how to do this the other day, as one does. There are three ways I can think of. One involves a good handful of rules and is the way I intuitively think of, one involves a deprecated attribute, and one is very simple and feels kinda like a CSS trick.… Read article “A Table With Borders Only On The Inside”