Awesome Tables With Very Little Markup

Feb

11

Creating nice looking tables in HTML can be quite annoying. You have to give the table an ID or class, then give each row a class or give each column a class. Then you have to add some crazy code to make each row alternate color and another set of crazy javascript to make the rows highlight when you mouse over them. Well... That is no longer the case. Below is an example of how to get nice looking HTML tables with very little code or markup.

Use Tables For Tables Only!
First things first, if your page is using tables for layout, then stop reading. This solution is for people who only use tables for their intended purpose. So, make sure you are using tables correctly before continuing on.

The Table Markup
The actual XHTML code for the tables themselves is extremely simple, and because of this is, it is nice and legible.
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Something Worth Writing About

Feb

06

I've been busy. Very, very, busy. Which means I've let my blog suffer and haven't written anything since... let's see here... NOVEMBER 27th! That's bad, however, I don't feel bad in the least. You want to know why? Because my site is taking a back seat to something way more important right now. "What could that be?" you might ask. Well I'll show you...

Our baby girl at 32 weeks

That's right, my beautiful wife and I are having a beautiful baby girl!!! We went for our 32 week ultrasound yesterday, and this picture (left) was taken. Isn't that amazing!

So, as you can see, you may not hear from me for a while as I'll be busy with more important business. You may, however, see a few more posts here. Posts of a proud father, showing off his beautiful baby daughter.

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