Table snippet vs list snippet — picking wrong leaves clicks on the table

Table snippet vs list snippet — picking wrong leaves clicks on the table

Heard from a comparison-content team this week: they kept losing pricing and spec queries to thin pages because they answered with prose where Google wanted a <table>.

— Comparative / 'X vs Y' / pricing / dimensions / 'by year' queries → table box. Mark up a real HTML table, not a styled div grid.
— Sequential / ranked / 'best' queries → list box.

The overlooked part: a table snippet can pull rows straight from your <th>/<td> structure, so messy table markup hands the box to whoever's cleaner. Reportedly a div-grid 'table' is invisible to the extractor — looks like a table to humans, looks like nothing to the parser. Watching this.