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adding tip about responsive design and tables
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remibetin committed May 13, 2024
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metafooter: true
last_updated: 2019-07-27
last_updated: 2023-11-08
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- Eric Eggert: "https://www.w3.org/People/yatil/"
- Shadi Abou-Zahra: "https://www.w3.org/People/shadi/"
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- **Keep it simple:** Complex tables are more work for content creators as well as being harder to interpret for users. It’s usually better to [break up complex tables into simple individual tables](/tutorials/tables/multi-level/#split-up-multi-level-tables), each containing the data for one sub-topic.

- **Responsive design:** On small screens, in a small viewport, in zoomed views, with enlarged text, and other situations, responsive tables often change format. Ensure that the structural relationship is available in all formats.

- **Table separation:** If several tables follow one another, don’t use a single table and put in an additional row of `<th>` cells. Screen readers may read aloud all `<th>` cells in a column, resulting in confusion. [Start a new `<table>` when the topic changes.](/tutorials/tables/multi-level/#split-up-multi-level-tables)

- **Data separation:**
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