# Modernizing our Topic List HTML - preparing themes, components and plugins

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/modernizing-our-topic-list-html-preparing-themes-components-and-plugins/209654>\
**Category:** Announcements\
**Tags:** new-feature\
**Created:** [November 19, 2021, 6:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/modernizing-our-topic-list-html-preparing-themes-components-and-plugins/209654 "2021-11-19T18:19:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![awesomerobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/awesomerobot/32/142900_2.png) [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2021, 8:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/modernizing-our-topic-list-html-preparing-themes-components-and-plugins/209654/7 "2021-11-19T20:16:34Z")

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The tl;dr is that we’re not going to be using the HTML `table` element for topic lists any more, they behave in some odd ways that aren’t great if you want to make significant changes with CSS.

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