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Tables: How Nature (and the W3C) Intended

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Tables were initially intended as a means of displaying tabular data online, enabling web designers to rapidly mark up things such as price lists, statistical comparisons, specification lists, spreadsheets, charts, forms, and so on (the following example shows a simple table, taken from www.infoq.com).

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© 2012 Craig Grannell, Victor Sumner, Dionysios Synodinos

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Grannell, C., Sumner, V., Synodinos, D. (2012). Tables: How Nature (and the W3C) Intended. In: The Essential Guide to HTML5 and CSS3 Web Design. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-3787-7_6

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