What HTML is
An HTML table is a table element containing thead and tbody, with th cells for headers and td cells for data.
Web pages, email templates and anything pasted into a CMS.
What Qlik is
A Qlik load script block using LOAD INLINE, which embeds the data in the script itself.
QlikView and Qlik Sense developers.
What changes when you convert HTML to Qlik
The first table in the markup is used. Cell contents are stripped of inline tags and entities are decoded, so <td><b>Total</b> </td> arrives as Total. Nested tables inside a cell are not descended into.
Suitable for small reference tables. For anything large, load from a file instead.
What carries over from HTML to Qlik
HTML records 3 things about a table that Qlik has no way to hold.
Qlik wants a type for each column, and HTML does not record one, so each column is typed from what its values look like. A column of digits that should stay text - a zip code, a phone number, a leading-zero id - is the usual thing to check afterwards.
HTML can hold a value that is itself a list or an object. Qlik has only flat cells, so nested values are flattened into one cell rather than being spread across columns.
A line break inside a cell ends the row in Qlik, so line breaks are replaced rather than carried through.
Anything visual in the HTML - weight, alignment, colour, column widths - has no counterpart in Qlik and is dropped. The values are what survives.
The identifier 007 comes out of the Qlik as 007. Reading it as a number would have made it 7, and an id that changes value is worse than one that stays text.
The role "Analyst, data" survives with its comma, in one cell rather than split across two. That is the first thing to check in any converted table, and the usual place a Qlik file goes wrong.
The quotes around Jonah "Jo" Pryce are left as a plain quote character in the Qlik.