Title: Responsive table
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Responsive table

 *  [InspiredMedia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/inspiredmedia/)
 * (@inspiredmedia)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/responsive-table-7/)
 * Need help with making this responsive for mobile. I have a simple table in the
   participants database that I am showing and it does not format correctly on a
   mobile phone. You can see the page here: [http://wg.inspiredmediadev.com/weekly-spx/](http://wg.inspiredmediadev.com/weekly-spx/)
 * I tried the responsive template but I need it to be a table as we post a trade
   history that shows 50 plus trades and scrolling that much is not user friendly.
   Any help would be appreciated.
 * Thanks in advance
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/participants-database/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/participants-database/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Roland Barker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xnau/)
 * (@xnau)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/responsive-table-7/#post-6749822)
 * Well, of course making thins work on a mobile device requires some major adjustments,
   it’s not at all trivial or something you can accomplish with a few tweaks here
   and there. Tables almost never work well in a small-screen environment, it’s 
   too difficult to get them to scale the way you want.
 * Most of what you need to do is step back and consider what it is you really need
   to provide to your users, eliminate everything else, and go from there. Presenting
   a lot of data on a small screen is challenging from a UI perspective and so finding
   the most economical way to give them access to what they need is critical. I’d
   suggest sticking with the responsive template, limiting the number of results
   and limiting the amount of information you show for each result to keep the page
   length to a reasonable size. Let them see the minimum amount of info they need
   to make a choice to drill down for more information…you’ll need to make the single
   record display well on a mobile device as well.
 * I can’t really offer you much help in the absence of a specific question, it’s
   too big a subject for a comment on a free support forum, but I hope you’ll find
   what I included here helpful.

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## Tags

 * [Mobile responsive](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/mobile-responsive/)
 * [tables](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/tables/)

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 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Roland Barker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xnau/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/responsive-table-7/#post-6749822)
 * Status: not resolved