: Good practice of showing Items details in the same table's page I have an application which have table of Item, now I'm wondering what is the best practice of showing Items details : Option

@Murray976

Same page or different page is really dependent upon the details themselves.


If the details are something like 20 numbers... you could do a simple table with show/hide jquery on the same page.
If the details are 20 different paragraphs of information then a page may be more feasible.


The determining factor would be how cumbersome seeing all the extra data is to the user.

If ingesting the extra data requires time and a user may need to refer to it multiple times to "get" it all, then you may want to displayed on its own.

If the nature of the details are brief, quick info, such as contact information, then the same page may work best. Primarily because the details would be something a user may need to quickly refer to then dismiss. If there's no cause to spend a great deal of time looking at the extra information, then an easy way to see it, then hide it is often more user-friendly.

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