Customizing table style

CSS

In order to use CSS to style a table, you’ll probably want to add a class or id attribute to the <table> element. django-tables2 has a hook that allows arbitrary attributes to be added to the <table> tag.

>>> import django_tables2 as tables
>>>
>>> class SimpleTable(tables.Table):
...     id = tables.Column()
...     age = tables.Column()
...
...     class Meta:
...         attrs = {'class': 'mytable'}
...
>>> table = SimpleTable()
>>> # renders to something like this:
'<table class="mytable">...'

Custom Template

And of course if you want full control over the way the table is rendered, ignore the built-in generation tools, and instead pass an instance of your Table subclass into your own template, and render it yourself.

Have a look at the django_tables2/table.html template for an example.

You can set DJANGO_TABLES2_TEMPLATE in your django settings to change the default template django-tables2 looks for.