Can anyone help with the following - re-designing a web site for my fire department and the template I utilized is "Mobile Responsive" but tables are not. Anyone have an idea on my best course of action to make a table mobile responsive? Looks good on desktop but formatting is lost completely on the mobile version.
[edited by: not2easy at 4:53 pm (utc) on Jan 8, 2021] [edit reason] Please see ToS [webmasterworld.com] [/edit]
NickMNS
4:51 pm on Jan 8, 2021 (gmt 0)
Don't use a table, simply divide your page in to three columns and then use a list. Replace your table tag with a div and then add three sub div with class col-md-4 and put the h2 and lists inside those divs.
lucy24
5:15 pm on Jan 8, 2021 (gmt 0)
A technique I've occasionally used is an @media rule that says things like
This is for times when the material really is a table, conceptually: there are two dimensions of relationships, top-to-bottom and side-to-side. (In my case generally something of a linguistic nature, like a long list of parallel translations, or inflectional tables.) It then makes more sense to set it up as a table in the html, and then change the display for narrow viewports. Tables that are purely numeric can probably be safely left as tables.
:: running off in a panic as I realize that I've got something currently in the marinade that really needs this kind of handling, but I forgot ::
captainron19
5:20 pm on Jan 8, 2021 (gmt 0)
Thanks a ton Nick - wasnt too familiar with the use of that code and thought for sure I was gonna have to alter the css but I found a similar code used in another area of the template
<div class="col-xs-6 col-sm-4 col-md-3">
And was able to get the a 2 colum list vew of each category !
captainron19
5:20 pm on Jan 8, 2021 (gmt 0)
By the way - what is the md-4 - I saw that the md-3 worked fine though
NickMNS
7:25 pm on Jan 8, 2021 (gmt 0)
wasnt too familiar with the use of that code
It's "Bootstrap" a css framework. It is the framework used to create your template.
Basically it has all the CSS predefined and named using a standardized format. For example in md-3 the "md" stands for medium, as in medium sized screen. The 3 is part of a ratio, the denominator being 12. It divides the screen into up to 12 columns. Calling 3 is really 3/12, thus 4 columns wide. md-3 will display 4 columns on any medium screen, and a single column on anything smaller. The different classes can also be combined:
<div class="col-xs-6 col-sm-4 col-md-3">
Should show 4 columns for anything equal to or larger than "medium", 3 columns for small screens, and 2 columns for extra small screen. I don't remember off hand what the exact pixel width for each designation is. I stopped using Bootstrap a while ago as I found it too bloated for my needs.