HTML Chapter 6




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The <table> tag

The <table> command starts a table, and the </table>. However, that alone will not allow you powers to flow freely through the ways of the table.
The <tr> and <td> tags must be used inside of the table.
It's really difficult for me to explain how a table works so I'm going to give you examples with detailed descriptions.

Examples

Study the picture below for a while.
This is the simplest table you can make; it has only one cell and one row.
If you wanted two cells and one row you would do this:
If you wanted two cells and two rows you would do this:



The <table> tag has a lot of different attributes. The majority of them are listed below:
bgcolor Changes the background color of the table.
background Changes the background textur of the table.
bordercolor Changes the base color for the table.
border changes the thickness of the table border.
bordercolorlight Changes the color of the upper left hand corner of the table(doesn't work with most Netscape versions).
bordercolordark Changes the color of the lower right hand corner of the table(also is mostly incompatable with Netscape).
cellpadding This is the distance inbetween the inner cell border, and the outer table border.
In the next, and final chapter of the HTML Dojo we go over forms so that you can use them in the JavaScript Tutorial that I made.
Backgrounds Tables Forms