HTML Table Tag
The <table></table> tags are an extremely useful HTML tool. In essence, it can make a checker board pattern of many dimensions. Anything can go in any cell. This is a wonderful tool for page layouts.
Syntax
<TABLE width=xxx cellpadding=xx cellspacing=xx border=x bgcolor="#rrggbb" bordercolor="#rrggbb" align=position valign=position nowrap><tr>
<th>heading-text</th>
<td>text-or-graphics</td>
<tr>
</TABLE>
Modifiers
- WIDTH=number
- The width is the width of the table in either pixels or the percentage of the screen (ie; 80%).
- ALIGN=position
- The align modifier controls the location of an item that is shorter than the screen width. It can be LEFT, CENTER or RIGHT.
- VALIGN=position
- The valign modifier controls the vertical locations for the entire table.
- BGCOLOR="color"
- Defines the background color.
- CELLPADDING=number
- The cellpadding modifier separates the borders from the text by a number of pixels.
- CELLSPACING=number
- The cellspacing modifier separates each cell from another by number of pixels.
- BORDERCOLOR="color"
- The HTML table border color for the table.
- NOWRAP
- Do not wrap text without the <br> tag.
Tips
- WIDTH problems
- The width of each cell is determined by everything within the table. If you want precise widths, try using a transparent graphic of the precise width in each cell going across.
- Tables are being replaced with CSS
- You may also want to look into learning Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).