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* [http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200410/bring_on_the_tables/ Best practices] for marking up tabular data (especially for accessibility) | * [http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200410/bring_on_the_tables/ Best practices] for marking up tabular data (especially for accessibility) | ||
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Revision as of 11:18, 9 July 2007
Table Examples
As the first stage of the microformats process, this page collects examples of best/common practice for using the table tag to represent structured data.
The Problem
Thought often abused for layout, the original purpose of HTML tables is to provide a two-dimensional structure for data. The purpose of this exploration is to determine if there are common patterns for annotationg those structures, and (if so) whether there is a need to formalize that as a microformat (a la xoxo for lists). The working hypothesis is tables typically represent two kinds of data:
- a list of dictionaries (with column headers, and sometimes row headers)
- a grid of numerical data (without any headers, or merely numeric indices)
Participants
Real-World Examples
- Best practices for marking up tabular data (especially for accessibility)