Thanks.  Exactly the kind of explanation I needed.

On Monday, December 3, 2012 3:28:28 PM UTC-6, Renoir Boulanger wrote:
>
> This is not a Twitter bootstrap question. But more a HTML semantics 
> question.
>
> Tables are made to show tabular data. If you have titles, sections, and 
> values. A table is perfect.
>
> In opposition; if you only have a few titles, and title: value format, a 
> Definition list would be perfect.
>
> <section>
> <h2>User details</h2>
> <dl><dt>Full name</dt><dd>Renoir Boulanger</dd></dl>
> </section>
>
>
> Regarding bootstrap and responsiveness. 
>
> But there, again, it is not bootstrap specific. I think they have what I 
> am mentionning, but I am late on versions! (I'm still using 1.4).
>
> I know that Zurb Foundation has this. But really, it is only a matter of 
> creating a class in the proper media query.
>
> Answer:
>
> In a table with per-row action drop down; I recommend you make each column 
> per value/button and you can add a class name on each td and th 
> representing columns you may not want visible.
>
> Then, when the browser gets to a size the media query containing that 
> class gets activated; the class will apply. And hide the superfluous 
> columns who has that class (e.g. hide-mq-lt-1024)
>
> Now that you know this (if you didn't yet) is that you may want to 
> minimize resource loading if you already know you are on a small screen.
>
> That's an other topic again :)
>
> Hope it helped
>
>

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