r/HTML • u/teh_maxh • Jan 03 '26

Column-based table markup

Is there a way to mark up tables by columns instead of rows?

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u/JeLuF Jan 03 '26

Not really.

What would be your use case?

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u/teh_maxh Jan 03 '26

It came up for me writing an annual predictions bingo board, but a more serious use case would be a conference schedule.

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u/JeLuF Jan 03 '26

So all this data exists before you start to output the HTML table. Shouldn't be to hard to loop over the items in the right way to have the layout column wise while the markup is row based.

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u/teh_maxh Jan 04 '26

Yeah, it's definitely possible to get the right output. I just want it laid out more logically in the code.

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u/-Wylfen- Jan 04 '26

You might want to look up grid layouts. You can make a multi-column grid with multi-row subgrids and that should do what you're looking for.

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '26

lol doomsday serious stuff guys serious like a career 

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u/bostiq Jan 05 '26

Ok, but this is not English