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Tables are a means of organizing content into rows and columns, often – but not always – in a grid-based layout where columns and rows have distinct relationships.

Tables (or HTML tables) are a structured arrangement of data presented in rows and columns on a web page, allowing for organized and tabular representation of information.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_(information)

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Multiple values in one cell in table

I have a table where there might be two values in one cell, what is the best practice to display this? With a comma or line break or something else? Unfortunately the values are quite long, and I believe is it rather important to let the user see…
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UI for splitting a table?

The web-app I'm designing for the marketing team has a table targeted suburbs with counts of persons, houses, etc. The users want to see the whole table (scrolling as necessary), and then elect to split the table rows into two or more groups. I have…
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Combine edit and action column?

In the table below, you can see the first column contains what I called the "action menu" and some examples of action could be: email, create task, send letter, create paycheck... The second column is the "Edit" column. Click on the icon will lead…
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Large off-screen tables with actions

here is a new question for my fellow colleagues. I am creating a framework and trying to standardize table creation, so I have to take under consideration all possible scenarios and am between decisions concerning large tabular data that expand…
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How to display a single column and multiple rows in UI?

I have to create the UI for a new dashboard. Most of the sections follow "single column, multiple records" policy. E.g. one section lists all the dates where attendance data is missing. So, it has only one column called "Date" which can have as many…
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Visual clue to indicate table header might be truncated

In our application, we have a table view which shows the values of some hierarchical model. For example, the hierarchical model could be Root |_ Property 1 |_ A parent |_ Property 2 In this case, the table would have 2 columns Property 1 |…
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Use hover effect on a non-link item. Is it advisable?

I have a list with many items, something like a row, some icons and text are clickable but not the entire row. Would a hover effect confuse users ? EDIT: Actions on the row are edit and delete.
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The first zebra striping should be dark or not

I'm doing zebra striping in a table. Should I start with the darker ("gray") or the lighter color ("white")? Is there an accepted theory or standard practice regarding this matter? Examples:
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Make the user decide number of rows/columns beforehand or give the user an excel like sheet?

I am making a table for the user to fill out the information. My question is what approach to use; is it best practice to make the user chose the number of rows and columns beforehand, like so : or to give them an excel like sheet and then they can…
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is it good practice to keep my table rows inline-editable

i am kind of struggling with tables with a lot of data that need to be editable. The table holds financial data. The table has about 12 columns for which at least 10 need to be editable. For the sake of ease the client prefers making them inline…
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Alternatives to tabular data display

We are working to show data from a variety of inputs and outputs at a given facility. Each facility can have any number of inputs and any number of outputs. For example: Facility 1 takes in the values 323 and 556. It outputs the values 123, 34,…
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Sub rows within complex tables

There's a table view we need to show in a Web app. It contains summaries of a company's listings on eBay. Because of the volume of information, a standard columned table won't work - it just gets too long. Instead, I've created a mockup where some…
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What is a good field separator that can coexist with colons?

I am currently migrating a bunch of data from several Excel files of similar formats into a more structured format. Imagine Tabular data like this in File 1: Customer | Cabinet : Device : Port | Cabinet : Secondary Device : Port | ... ACME | C1 …
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Creating a table - the easiest way possible

I'm working on a website and I need the users to define the columns for a table. There are different types of columns which might be text, numeric, URL, email and so on. So every column has the name and the type. This is a critical step in the…
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How to keep the original value on a table after an override?

I have a table that displays the qty. entered by the user when they uploaded their spreadsheet. We want to show the user the alternative price for other quantities, so if they originally entered 80 they could see that if they change it to 100 the…
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