Basic HTML version of Foils prepared 11 May 1997

Foil 30 What's Inside a Table

From Introduction to HTML--ECS400 fall 97 ECS400 Senior Undergraduate Course -- Spring Semester 97. by Nancy J. McCracken *
1 Within the table tags can be a caption tag and some number of row tags.
  • <caption> . . . </caption> Other html tags can be used inside these tags to format the caption text. The <caption> tag has an ALIGN=top|bottom attribute to say where to place the caption.
  • <tr> . . . </tr> Within each pair of row tags will be all the cell tags of that row. The <tr> tag can have ALIGN and VALIGN attributes as described below to specify allignment for all cells in that row.
2 Within the row tags are any number of cell and header tag pairs. If the rows of a table don't have the same number of cells, they will be padded with blank cells to the length of the longest row.
  • <td> . . . </td> Within these tags is the contents of an individual cell (table data). Other html tags can be used to to make text, images, links, etc.
  • <th> . . . </th> Header cells are just like data cells, except that the text is bold face and centered.
3 Attributes to align contents of cells
  • ALIGN=left|center|right
  • VALIGN=top|middle|bottom|baseline
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