Web Foundations/Tables

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This lesson introduces tables.

Objectives and Skills

Objectives and skills for this lesson include:

• Use the most current version of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML5) to create Web pages.
• Design Web pages to industry standards.

Readings

1. Wikipedia: HTML table
2. Wikibooks: HyperText Markup Language/Tables

Examples

Table

<table>
<!-- table content -->
</table>

Table Row

<tr>
<!-- row content -->
</tr>

Table Heading

<th>
<!-- heading content -->
</th>

Table Data

<td>
<!-- cell content -->
</td>

Column Span

<td colspan="3">
<!-- cell content -->
</td>

Row Span

<td rowspan="3">
<!-- cell content -->
</td>

Combined

<table border=1 cellpadding=5 cellspacing=0>
<tr>
<th>Column 1</th>
<th>Column 2</th>
<th>Column 3</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Data 1</td>
<td>Data 2</td>
<td rowspan=2>Data 5</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Data 3</td>
<td>Data 4</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan=3>Data 6</td>
</tr>
</table>

Example:

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Data 1	Data 2	Data 5
Data 3	Data 4
Data 6

Activities

1. Complete the tutorial TutorialsPoint: HTML Tables

Key Terms

colspan

rowspan

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