4th July 2008

Table - tr - td and Attributes CELLPADDING - CELLSPACING - COLSPAN - ROWSPAN

HTML tags - Table tags

<TABLE> - </TABLE> - defines a table.

<TR> - </TR> - defines a row in a table.

<TD> - </TD> - defines a cell in a row within a table.

<TH> - </TH> - defines a table header (cell with bold text).

the following attributes are used in conjunction with the <TABLE> tag.

<TABLE WIDTH=?> - defines the width of the table, where ? is the width, given in pixels or percentage of page.

<TABLE BORDER=?> - defines the size of the table border, where ? is the value.

<TABLE CELLSPACING=?> - defines the amount of space between adjacent cells in the table.

<TABLE CELLPADDING=?> - defines the amount of space between a cell's border and the cell contents.

the following attributes are used in conjunction with the <TD> tag.

<TD ALIGN=???> - </TD ALIGN=???> - defines the alignment for cells, where ??? is either LEFT, RIGHT or CENTER. For example to create a cell with centered content, you could use
<TD ALIGN=CENTER>content goes here</TD ALIGN=CENTER>.

<TD VALIGN=???> - </TD VALIGN=???> - defines the vertical alignment for cells, where ??? is either TOP, MIDDLE or BOTTOM. For example to create a cell with text aligned at the bottom you would use
<TD VALIGN=BOTTOM>content goes here</TD VALIGN=BOTTOM>.

<TD COLSPAN=?> - defines the amount of columns that a cell should span, where ? is the amount of columns.

<TD ROWSPAN=?> - defines the amount of rows that a cell should span, where ? is the amount of rows.

<TD NOWRAP> - denotes that the text within the cell should not wrap around to the next line.