How to style my unordered list like a table?

Question

I have ONLY one

and under that we have group of

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  1
  
     
  2
           
  
  
          

Answer 1

It's a really late answer, but I think this is a common topic. Here's a codepen I made.

Obviously it's just a starting point. It also has some example of how to add styles like bg or borders. If the 'cells' contain some arbitrary content, you'll have to adjust dimensions, for example. I use this kind of code for thumbnails galleries, for example, where you don't have to worry about borders or bgs and it's quite elementary code (the example is for a 2x3 table, see codepen):

ul{
  list-style:none;
}

ul li{
  float:left;
  padding:10px;
  border-bottom:1px solid #000;
  border-right:1px solid #000;
}

ul li:nth-child(3n){
  background-color:#888;
}

ul li:nth-child(3n+1){
  clear:both;
  border-left:1px solid #000;
  background-color:#ccc;
}

ul li:nth-child(-n+3){
  border-top:1px solid #000;
}

Hope it helps.