How create table only using <div> tag and Css

I want to create table only using <div> tag and CSS.

This is my sample table.

<body>
  <form id="form1">
      <div class="divTable">
             <div class="headRow">
                <div class="divCell" align="center">Customer ID</div>
                <div  class="divCell">Customer Name</div>
                <div  class="divCell">Customer Address</div>
             </div>
            <div class="divRow">
                  <div class="divCell">001</div>
                <div class="divCell">002</div>
                <div class="divCell">003</div>
            </div>
            <div class="divRow">
                <div class="divCell">xxx</div>
                <div class="divCell">yyy</div>
                <div class="divCell">www</div>
           </div>
            <div class="divRow">
                <div class="divCell">ttt</div>
                <div class="divCell">uuu</div>
                <div class="divCell">Mkkk</div>
           </div>

      </div>
  </form>
</body>

And Style:

<style type="text/css">
    .divTable
    {
        display:  table;
        width:auto;
        background-color:#eee;
        border:1px solid  #666666;
        border-spacing:5px;/*cellspacing:poor IE support for  this*/
       /* border-collapse:separate;*/
    }

    .divRow
    {
       display:table-row;
       width:auto;
    }

    .divCell
    {
        float:left;/*fix for  buggy browsers*/
        display:table-column;
        width:200px;
        background-color:#ccc;
    }
</style>

But this table not work with IE7 and below version.Please give your solution and ideas for me. Thanks.

Solution 1:

.div-table {
  display: table;         
  width: auto;         
  background-color: #eee;         
  border: 1px solid #666666;         
  border-spacing: 5px; /* cellspacing:poor IE support for  this */
}
.div-table-row {
  display: table-row;
  width: auto;
  clear: both;
}
.div-table-col {
  float: left; /* fix for  buggy browsers */
  display: table-column;         
  width: 200px;         
  background-color: #ccc;  
}

Runnable snippet:

.div-table {
  display: table;         
  width: auto;         
  background-color: #eee;         
  border: 1px solid #666666;         
  border-spacing: 5px; /* cellspacing:poor IE support for  this */
}
.div-table-row {
  display: table-row;
  width: auto;
  clear: both;
}
.div-table-col {
  float: left; /* fix for  buggy browsers */
  display: table-column;         
  width: 200px;         
  background-color: #ccc;  
}

<body>
  <form id="form1">
      <div class="div-table">
             <div class="div-table-row">
                <div class="div-table-col" align="center">Customer ID</div>
                <div  class="div-table-col">Customer Name</div>
                <div  class="div-table-col">Customer Address</div>
             </div>
            <div class="div-table-row">
                  <div class="div-table-col">001</div>
                <div class="div-table-col">002</div>
                <div class="div-table-col">003</div>
            </div>
            <div class="div-table-row">
                <div class="div-table-col">xxx</div>
                <div class="div-table-col">yyy</div>
                <div class="div-table-col">www</div>
           </div>
            <div class="div-table-row">
                <div class="div-table-col">ttt</div>
                <div class="div-table-col">uuu</div>
                <div class="div-table-col">Mkkk</div>
           </div>

      </div>
  </form>
</body>

Solution 2:

divs shouldn't be used for tabular data. That is just as wrong as using tables for layout.
Use a <table>. Its easy, semantically correct, and you'll be done in 5 minutes.

Solution 3:

This is an old thread, but I thought I should post my solution. I faced the same problem recently and the way I solved it is by following a three-step approach as outlined below which is very simple without any complex CSS.

(NOTE : Of course, for modern browsers, using the values of table or table-row or table-cell for display CSS attribute would solve the problem. But the approach I used will work equally well in modern and older browsers since it does not use these values for display CSS attribute.)

3-STEP SIMPLE APPROACH

For table with divs only so you get cells and rows just like in a table element use the following approach.

Replace table element with a block div (use a .table class)
Replace each tr or th element with a block div (use a .row class)
Replace each td element with an inline block div (use a .cell class)

.table {display:block; }
.row { display:block;}
.cell {display:inline-block;}

    <h2>Table below using table element</h2>
    <table cellspacing="0" >
       <tr>
          <td>Mike</td>
          <td>36 years</td>
          <td>Architect</td>
       </tr>
       <tr>
          <td>Sunil</td>
          <td>45 years</td>
          <td>Vice President aas</td>
       </tr>
       <tr>
          <td>Jason</td>
          <td>27 years</td>
          <td>Junior Developer</td>
       </tr>
    </table>
    <h2>Table below is using Divs only</h2>
    <div class="table">
       <div class="row">
          <div class="cell">
             Mike
          </div>
          <div class="cell">
             36 years
          </div>
          <div class="cell">
             Architect
          </div>
       </div>
       <div class="row">
          <div class="cell">
             Sunil
          </div>
          <div class="cell">
             45 years
          </div>
          <div class="cell">
             Vice President
          </div>
       </div>
       <div class="row">
          <div class="cell">
             Jason
          </div>
          <div class="cell">
             27 years
          </div>
          <div class="cell">
             Junior Developer
          </div>
       </div>
    </div>

UPDATE 1

To get around the effect of same width not being maintained across all cells of a column as mentioned by thatslch in a comment, one could adopt either of the two approaches below.

Specify a width for cell class

cell {display:inline-block; width:340px;}
Use CSS of modern browsers as below.

.table {display:table; } .row { display:table-row;} .cell {display:table-cell;}

How create table only using <div> tag and Css

Solution 1:

Solution 2:

Solution 3:

Related

Recent Posts