Developers who adhere to web standards know that it’s important to solve webpage layout and design using CSS, and to leave HTML tables to do what they were originally intended to do: display tabular data. But how to find something quickly in a large HTML table filled with data?
Tablecloth, a Javascript/CSS hybrid, allows user-driven interactive highlighting to be applied to any webpage featuring tables–using just two lines of code. This is a useful asset for, say, spreadsheet-type online applications, online game scoreboards and just about any other information display type that relies on tabular data.
