The Microsoft® Tabular Data Control allows an HTML page to display data from delimited text files, either as part of tables or a row at a time. The data can optionally be filtered or sorted by the browser under script control (with no server involvement). If the first line of the text file is a header line that describes the column names and data types, intelligent sorting and filtering will occur. For example, dates and numbers will sort as expected rather than in strict text order (that is, 2 will sort before 10). Extensions in Microsoft® Internet Explorer 4.0 allow you to bind data fields to controls on an HTML form as well as a single table row that will be expanded to show the data in all rows.
This reference describes the object, properties, and method of the Tabular Data Control.