# Creating beautiful and functional tables

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/creating-beautiful-and-functional-tables/28022>\
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**Created:** [June 15, 2021, 8:50pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/creating-beautiful-and-functional-tables/28022 "2021-06-15T20:50:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Darren\_Murphy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/darren_murphy/32/47326_2.png) [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2021, 8:39am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/creating-beautiful-and-functional-tables/28022/5 "2021-06-16T08:39:06Z")

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For anything other than basic table functionality, you might want to consider creating tables using Markdown/HTML/CSS and render in a rich text component. Here’s an example of the sort of thing you can do:

> [@zap Rich Text \> Actions!](https://community.glideapps.com/t/rich-text-actions/27273/12):
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> Sure! One thing that isn’t obvious from the screen shot is that two of those tables are collapsable: That’s done in the usual way, using HTML \<details\>\<summary\> tags. Although getting it to play nicely with the tables was a bit fiddly. Anyway… I used [HTML Table Styler ▦ CSS Generator | 𝗗𝗜𝗩𝗧𝗔𝗕𝗟𝗘.𝗖𝗢𝗠](https://divtable.com/table-styler/) to come up with the basic table structure and CSS, and then butchered the CSS until I got it looking how I wanted. My CSS-fu is not very strong, so I suspect there is a lot of bloat the…

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