Table Tags The current HTML standard allows the creation of tables. Most of the tags used to create tables have several attributes, and the attributes are listed with the description of the tags themselves. Name Purpose Attributes Contents CAPTION Create a table's caption ALIGN text TABLE Create a table (tag must be closed) (see below) CAPTION TR TD Table data (see below) (see below) TH Table headers (see below) (see below) TR Table rows ALIGN VALIGN TD TH Example: Description Count Price Brown Widgets 3 $15.00 Red Widgets 5 $1.00 Total $50.00 <table border=1> <tr><th>Description</th> <th>Count</th> <th> Price</th></tr> <tr><td>Brown Widgets</td> <td>3</td> <td align="right">$15.00</td></tr> <tr><td>Red Widgets</td> <td>5</td> <td align="right">$1.00</td></tr> <tr><td>Total</td> <td colspan=2 align="right">$50.00</td> </tr> </table> Table Captions The CAPTION tag is used within the TABLE tag to add a caption to the table. Its only attribute, ALIGN determines the location of the caption, which can be either TOP or BOTTOM. The Table Tag The TABLE tag creates the table. The ALIGN attribute can be either LEFT, CENTER or RIGHT, which determines the alignment of the table. The value of BORDER attribute controls the pixel width of the table cell borders. CELLPADDING and CELLSPACING control the spacing in pixels within and between cells, respectively. Finally, the WIDTH attribute determines the width of the table, similar in use to the corresponding attribute in the HR tag. Attribute Purpose ALIGN Table alignment BORDER Pixel width of table borders CELLPADDING Spacing within cells Attribute Purpose CELLSPACING Spacing between cells WIDTH Table width Table cells Both the TD and TH tags create table cells. They both must be contained within the TR tag. While the TD tag is used to create cells containing table data, the TH tag is used to create header cells for the table, which are typically displayed in boldface. Both of these tags use the same set of attributes, which are explained below. Attribute Purpose ALIGN Cell's horizontal alignment COLSPAN Number of columns cell occupies HEIGHT Cell's height in pixels NOWRAP Suppress word wrapping in cell Attribute Purpose ROWSPAN Number oable cells. By specifying these attributes in the TR tag declares a default value for all cells contained within the row. Author: Ben Yoshino (ben@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu) Comments, Questions? | E-mail: webmaster@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu Last updated on Monday, February 05, 2001 Copyright © 2001 University of Hawai`i, College of Engineering, Computer Facility All rights reserved.