[spectre240sx]

I've got some very large tables to work with on a site I'm working on right now. Large enough that they're overflowing a layout designed for 1024x768 resolutions. Any reccomendations on handling these? I've thought of doing a pop-up window specificially for the tables as they're only 1 per page, but pop-ups can get complicated too easily, even if done well.

[weldo]

make them smaller

[seen.to]

Large tables are a two man job and you should always lift with your knees.

[spectre240sx]

Well, without reducing the size to 6px font and eliminating all whitespace, they're not going to shrink down very easily. One of the tables is 14 columns wide with at least 1 full word width per column; some are two words wide or more. I've reduced the font size slightly and it's better, but still not what I'd like to see.

Also, just to be clear, this is actual tabular data in the table.

[herkalees]

Why not do what's right and edit the layout itself to be fluid? Otherwise, yeah, a pop-up window, though horrid, might be the next-best solution.

Or... restructuring the tabular data itself?

[Dusteh]

Does it need to be online at all? downloadable PDF for print is another option.

Otherwise you need to rethink your layout so it isn't limited to a small static size of 1024x768

**edit** beaten to it.

[spectre240sx]

Yeah... I've thought about restructuring the data. I think that may be the answer eventually. Then I could somehow provide a link to an exported version in CSV type format. I'm going to be working on a printable version for most of the tables on the site anyway.

If you're wondering, this is an intranet site with employee information, etc. being displayed. Uncommon sort of stuff to be displayed on a web page.

[haku]

Can you not split it up into two tables, one on top, one on the bottom?

[spectre240sx]

No... all of the data really needs to be as is. I was able to resize the tables and it's not too bad at this point.

Thanks for the suggestions, though.