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Visual Design Recommendations

Checkpoint 5.17 - Mobile-PDA

Nested tables have not been used

DEECD Requirement

DEECD Guideline

Tables placed within tables, called nested tables, do not work well in a mobile environment due to the added complexity required by the mobile device rendering engine to create them and because they increase the size of the page.

Requirement

Nested tables have not been used

Recommendation

All layout must be controlled using CSS. This reduces the maintenance required for any changes.

Checking Tool

View the source code of the page to check that nested tables are not used. Look for instances of the <td> element followed by the <table> element.

 

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