Responsive Table

  • Resolved coreyalderin

    (@coreyalderin)


    10 years, 11 months ago

    I can’t seem to figure out how to make the table be responsive. in smaller devices the table does not shrink. It stays the same size and gets hidden off the screen. I am using a very simple table (1 column) and just want the text to wrap, rather than get hidden.

    I thought it would be a simple CSS change but I can;t seem to get it to work that way. Is there an easy solution to this?

    Thanks

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  • Plugin Author xnau webdesign

    (@xnau)

    Building responsive tables for mobile devices is generally difficult, in fact much of the time, tables are not used to display lists of things at all, but floated divs or something like that. If you look up “HTML responsive tables” in a web search you’ll find several strategies for dealing with this sort of display. Once you figure out how you want to do it, you can create a custom template that builds the HTML.

    You may need to use some kind of device detection, using CSS media queries may not be flexible enough.

    Thread Starter coreyalderin

    (@coreyalderin)

    OK, I guess I thought it would be so simple.

    Since I will be only displaying one column, I wonder if I could just change the template to display the data as a list, rather than a table, would be easier. I will try that.

    Will this break any other functionality of the plugin if I do that?

    Thanks for the help.

    Plugin Author xnau webdesign

    (@xnau)

    If you use a custom template, you’ll stay out of trouble. Don’t edit the plugin directly.

    Thread Starter coreyalderin

    (@coreyalderin)

    This worked perfectly. I just removed <table> and replaced it with a <div>. Removed the <td>s and <tr>s and replaced them with ULs and
    LIs. Then changed the CSS a little.

    It is now completely responsive.

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