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Creating Tables

This tag is used to create a table. Table options are outlined individually below. Opening and closing tags are required.

<table> - opening tag
</table> - closing tag

Table options:

width: The width of the table. Note that many older or lower resolution monitors and laptop devices use a 800 x 600 pixel display. Tables are often used to force your web pages to a certain width so all display devices are capable of reading your page uniformly. Setting a table width no higher than 670 pixels usually accomplishes this goal.

border: This is a pixel width for a border on the table. Using a zero will force borderless tables. If you specify a number in this option, you will have a border (line ruling) around your tables and cells.

align: Specifies your table to be horizontally aligned left, center, or right relative to the container tag in which it is nested (usually the <body> tag). This is unrelated to any subsequent alignment code for content in each table row or cell.

2 x 2 table

cellpadding: Specifies the padding (in pixels) between elements inside your table cells and the edges of those cells.

Cell Padding

cellspacing: Specifies the spacing between cells of your table.

Cell Spacing

bgcolor and background: You can specify a background color or background image for the area within your table. Background images do not work in older browsers.

 

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