Nicer Tables

From CSS Discuss

Tables are still a valid tool. Although you should not use tables to layout or structure your site, your should use tables to organize data. You can style these data tables using CSS.

• Accessible Data Tables Prepared by Roger Hudson For the Web Essential Info Night in Sydney - 30 June 2005
• Bring on the tables A good overview on using tables properly, from 456 Berea St.
• http://robertdenton.org/reference/css-tables-tutorial.html - Some of the examples here look nice enough, however there are some violations of good accessibility practices. For example, using "& middot ;" for a bullet instead of "ul li" tags is not recommended.
• http://moronicbajebus.com/playground/cssplay/reformat-table/ - Format a table in a non-table manner.
• http://www.brainjar.com/dhtml/tablesort/ - The first page of this tutorial nicely illustrates the use of CSS to make a vertically-scrolling table (although the tutorial's main point is using the DOM to manipulate the table with javascript).
• http://www.imaputz.com/cssStuff/bigFourVersion.html - Example of a table with a fixed header and scrollable body content (a la Excel style).

Styling table columns

See Styling Columns page.