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Our users never seem to like this approach. It does not work very well at all with complex tables (colspans, rowspans), sorting and filtering feels funky if you don't know it's a table from the start and it's insanely repetitive. Most of the time we end up wrapping the `table` in a div with `overflow: auto` and then they can scroll around the table. The only issue is when a column ends at the edge of the screen so a user doesn't know to scroll. What we did to help with this is put a shadow on the edges in the directions you can scroll.



It's definitely not for every scenario. It will depend on your data, whether or not you need sorting as you mentioned, and how many total rows there are in the table (card effect becomes too much after 20 or so). However for this simple use case, we thought it the best way to go.


Absolutely agreed. It works great for this situation.




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