--- title: "Comment by Daniel Buchner on \"Really Responsive Tables using CSS3 Flexbox\" | Hashnode" description: "Why not just apply flexbox CSS styles to <table> and <tr> elements themselves? --> http://codepen.io/csuwldcat/pen/JGabQV" url: "https://hashnode.com/posts/really-responsive-tables-using-css3-flexbox/56ab0b76960088c21db4d82c/comment/56b260f10a7ca0c6f70c3c82" --- [Discussion](https://hashnode.com/posts/really-responsive-tables-using-css3-flexbox/56ab0b76960088c21db4d82c) Comment [Really Responsive Tables using CSS3 Flexbox](https://hashnode.com/posts/really-responsive-tables-using-css3-flexbox/56ab0b76960088c21db4d82c) [Daniel Buchner](https://hashnode.com/@csuwildcat) [Feb 3, 2016](https://hashnode.com/posts/really-responsive-tables-using-css3-flexbox/56ab0b76960088c21db4d82c/comment/56b260f10a7ca0c6f70c3c82) Why not just apply flexbox CSS styles to and elements themselves? --> [codepen.io/csuwldcat/pen/JGabQV](http://codepen.io/csuwldcat/pen/JGabQV) [Vasan Subramanian](https://hashnode.com/@vasan) [Feb 4, 2016](https://hashnode.com/posts/really-responsive-tables-using-css3-flexbox/56ab0b76960088c21db4d82c/comment/56b260f10a7ca0c6f70c3c82#reply-56b2d5e604f0061506b364e4) Yes, that would work for Plain Wrap. But for the other examples, we need to nest some cells within parent containers to keep them together. I could have indeed used nested tables to achieve this, but I found `
`s simpler and easier to deal with in terms of styles. [GCat](https://hashnode.com/@gregcatalano) [Apr 16, 2016](https://hashnode.com/posts/really-responsive-tables-using-css3-flexbox/56ab0b76960088c21db4d82c/comment/56b260f10a7ca0c6f70c3c82#reply-5712203b10742993bdb8ced4) I don't think that will be responsive.