Displaying a large data set in a table cell

1. How do I show large data in a table in HTML?
2. How do I hide the overflow text in a table cell?
3. How do you stop a cell from expanding in a table?

How do I show large data in a table in HTML?

tl;dr - To speed up loading a large HTML table on the client, start with the table CSS set to display: none; . Once the document is ready, set it back to display: table; . This reduced my client-side render time from 60 seconds to 6 seconds on a table with ~400,000 cells.

How do I hide the overflow text in a table cell?

To use the CSS overflow property with its "hidden" value on the HTML <td> element, you need to set the table-layout property with the "fixed" value and an appropriate width on the <table> element. Then, you need to add the overflow property set to "hidden" and white-space property set to "nowrap" on the table cell.

How do you stop a cell from expanding in a table?

To prevent cells (rows) from expanding vertically, you have to set a fixed height for table rows. Select the relevant rows and, on the Table Tools Layout tab, click Properties.