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PHOTOGRAPHY AND GRAPHICS BY JAY BOERSMA

WebworkTable Samples

A very simple table followed by the HTML that created it:

One Two
Three Four

<table border="1"> begins the table and specifies border size
<tr> creates the first horizontal table row
<td>one</td> adds first data cell to row
<td>two</td> adds second data cell to row
</tr> ends the first horizontal table row
<tr> creates the second horizontal table row
<td>three</td> adds data cell to second row
<td>four</td> adds data cell to second row
</tr> ends the second horizontal table row
</table> ends table


The same table set for 50% of screen width:

One Two
Three Four

<table border="1" width="50%">


The same table set for 600-pixel screen width:

One Two
Three Four

<table border="1" width="600">


...with a border of 5:

One Two
Three Four

<table border="5">


...with a border of 0:

One Two
Three Four

<table border="0">


...with the word "one" aligned=right in the cell:

One Two
Three Four

<td align="right">one</td>


...with the letters A, B and C aligned=center in the cell
and the word "Two" vertically-aligned bottom:

A
B
C
Two
Three Four

<td align="center">A<br>B<br>C</td>
<td valign="bottom">Two</td>


...with cellspacing set to 10:

One Two
Three Four

<table border="1" cellspacing="10">


...with cellpadding set to 10:

One Two
Three Four

<table border="1" cellpadding="10">


A single-cell table as a pushbutton:

PUSH

<p>
<table border="10" cellpadding="5">

<tr><td align="center">
<b><a href="button.html">PUSH</a></b>
</td></tr>
</table>


A table with a few more rows, columns, and a caption:

Table of Numbers
One Two Three Four
Five Six Seven Eight
Nine Ten Eleven Twelve
Thirteen Fourteen Fifteen Sixteen

<caption align="top"> Table of Numbers


The colspan (column span) tag:

Table of Numbers
One/Two/Three/Four
Five Six Seven Eight
Nine Ten Eleven Twelve
Thirteen Fourteen Fifteen/Sixteen

<td align="center" colspan="4"> One/Two/Three/Four
<td align="center" colspan="2"> Fifteen/Sixteen


The rowspan (row span) tag:

Table of Numbers
One Two Three Four
Five Six Seven
Eight Nine Ten
Eleven Twelve Thirteen
Fourteen Fifteen Sixteen

<td align="center" rowspan="3"> One
<td align="center" rowspan="3"> Ten


Combining several of the above table tags
- non-breaking spaces, (&nbsp;) used to populate empty cells:


Table of Numbers
Odd Even
One-digit Two-digit One-digit Two-digit
One Three Eleven Thirteen Two Four Ten Twelve
Five Seven Fifteen Seventeen Six Eight Fourteen Sixteen
Nine   Nineteen Twenty-one     Eighteen Twenty


A table with other tables inside:

Numbers
1 2 Letters
3 4 A B Colors
5 6 C D Stooges
I II III
IV V VI
a b c
d e f


In addition to their obvious usefulness as arrangers of columns of numbers or other data, tables are frequently used to do page layout because they allow you to format web pages in ways that basic HTML does not. See Tables as Page Layout Tools for examples.


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