What's the best way to display a single record in a webpage?

Question

I have a master/detail form. I have a jquery grid for the detail, works fine. I'm not sure how to display the master single record. I don't want to use an html table. Just a styled list maybe?

I've was always so spoiled with asp.net controls in webforms that I don't know any good practices for this sort of thing. I am using PHP and CodeIgniter if that matters. Outside of tables (that was from old classic asp, when I did everything manually), I can only think of a list that wraps php tags with the proper data from my database. I don't know that I want to use jquery for the master part. Thank you for any help and comments.

For example, at the moment I have this in my view:

<?php foreach ($search_result->result() as $row):?>
    <div class="post">
     <h1 class="title">
      <?=$row->product_name?></br>
      <?=$row->product?></br>
      <?=$row->description . '/' . $row->price . ' - ' . $row->tax?>
     </h1>
     <div class="entry">  
      <?=anchor('products/getproducts/' . $row->productid, 'Products\'s Information')?>
     </div>
    </div>
<?php endforeach;?>

I could wrap those in some html tags that have ID and names, so that when I press a button on them the grid grabs those values to populate my grid.

Answer 1

However it is most beneficial to the user...

A styled list is simple, clean, and presents what you need as long as it works for you.