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Learn more about Labs How to best hide a table column for mobile view Ask Question Asked 10 years, 11 months ago Modified 6 years, 4 months ago Viewed 39k times 19

I have a HTML table, in a mobile browser I need to hide some of its columns.

I want to hide 2 or 3 of these cols using @media queries if possible. the below code didn't work for me:

<table> <tr> <td></td> <td class='collapsable'></td> <td class='collapsable'></td> <td></td> </tr> </table> //hide cols here td.collapsable {display:block; } @media only screen and (min-width: 450px) { //show cols here td.collapsable {display:none; } }

• html
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• html-table

Share Improve this question Follow edited Feb 12, 2018 at 11:45 Brian Tompsett - 汤莱恩 5,8377272 gold badges6060 silver badges132132 bronze badges asked Jul 24, 2013 at 15:03 IEnumerableIEnumerable 3,7401414 gold badges5151 silver badges7979 bronze badges 6

• Plan B: put a DIV in each cell. Class the DIVs by column. Hide the DIVs. – Diodeus - James MacFarlane Commented Jul 24, 2013 at 15:11
• ok, I see where you're at. Yes if no one post a direct solution that actually collapses that will have to do :) – IEnumerable Commented Jul 24, 2013 at 15:12
• Should your media query be max-width if you are hiding the column for smaller displays? – user1171848 Commented Jul 24, 2013 at 15:17
• 1 im coding css for mobile first, then using media queries for desktop. My question was worded the other way around. – IEnumerable Commented Jul 24, 2013 at 15:18
• Mmm I've seen this a lot. Assign class to the part that may not be displayed. Gues what? You still request the data.... Just don't post data to the mobiles. Or you expect all users to have unlimited data limits?? – Ron van der Heijden Commented Jul 24, 2013 at 15:30

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Something like this? (try resizing the Result window/pane)

The HTML:

<tr> <td class="one">corpse</td> <td>corpse</td> <td>corpse</td> </tr>

The CSS:

table{ width: 50%; } td, th{ border: 1px solid orange; } @media only screen and (max-width: 900px) { .one{ display: none; } } Share Improve this answer Follow answered Jul 24, 2013 at 15:23 ZubzobZubzob 2,71344 gold badges2929 silver badges4646 bronze badges 5

• yes the jsfiddle looks good. love it thankyou; exactly what I was looking for. No more JS :) – IEnumerable Commented Jul 24, 2013 at 15:26
• @IEnumerable isn't this exactly what you had written in your question? – punkrockbuddyholly Commented Jul 24, 2013 at 15:37
• Oh I see, it's effectively the opposite of what you did. – punkrockbuddyholly Commented Jul 24, 2013 at 15:47
• 5 thats one way to get rid of a corpse – Jason Portnoy Commented Jan 17, 2016 at 22:35
• Thanks, I had the same problem but I also added CSS style display:block; for class .one outside of the @media to make it visible again on all other screen sizes, but apparently that is not necessary. – Al John Commented Jan 20, 2020 at 12:04

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Keep your HTML and table markup clean by using nth-child to hide the column. Should work with every modern browser that supports media queries.

Here's a sample fiddle showing it in action. Resize the result pane to see it work.

https://jsfiddle.net/tycahill/xm0nwr7x

The clean HTML:

<table> <tr> <td>Column 1a</td> <td>Column 2a</td> <td>Column 3a</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Column 1b</td> <td>Column 2b</td> <td>Column 3b</td> </tr> </table>

The CSS to hide the second column:

@media only screen and (max-width: 800px) { td:nth-child(2) { display:none; } } Share Improve this answer Follow answered Sep 1, 2016 at 16:47 Ty the Web GuyTy the Web Guy 19111 silver badge44 bronze badges 0 Add a comment | 2

Plan B: put a DIV in each cell. Class the DIVs by column. Hide the DIVs. You may need to adjust your table's cellpadding/cellspacing and put it on the .cell DIV to maintain the previous appearance.

<table> <tr> <td><div class='cell'></div></td> <td><div class='cell collapsable'></div></td> <td><div class='cell collapsable'></div></td> <td><div class='cell'></div></td> </tr> </table> Share Improve this answer Follow answered Jul 24, 2013 at 15:19 Diodeus - James MacFarlaneDiodeus - James MacFarlane 114k3333 gold badges160160 silver badges179179 bronze badges 1

• good work with the .cell - I just tried it out and worked fine. – IEnumerable Commented Jul 24, 2013 at 15:23

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I think your example has the display:block and display:none switched. Also, I would recommend using display: table-cell; instead of display: block;, since table-cell is the default display for <td> elements. This CSS worked for me, and also is a mobile-first approach:

td.collapsable {display:none; } @media only screen and (min-width: 450px) { td.collapsable {display:table-cell; } } Share Improve this answer Follow answered Jul 24, 2013 at 15:27 user1171848user1171848 29611 gold badge44 silver badges1010 bronze badges 2

• 1 Im having trouble making this work, do I apply the class to just the th or each td as well ? – IEnumerable Commented Jul 24, 2013 at 15:31
• I applied it to only the td. Maybe it's a browser-specific issue; have you tested in other browsers? – user1171848 Commented Jul 24, 2013 at 15:32

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