HTML Basics-The table Tag, attributes used with examples, purpose and usage of tables

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HTML Basics-The table Tag, attributes used with examples, purpose and usage of tables - HTMl tables are very important and are widely used now a days. The HTML tags , , (Table Rows) - Opening or starting tag to create row. Used to divide the table into rows

(Table Rows - Closing or ending tag to create row. Used to divide the table into rows

(Table Heading) - Closing or ending tag defines a cell that is header of a group of cells in a table.

(Table Data) - Closing or ending tag of a cell of the table that contains data.

Attributes used with table tag

and a number of attributes are used. A web page can be divided into sections with the help of table and all the websites use this powerful tool as invisibles tables to layout their web pages. These tags can simply be added where a table is to be displayed.

HTML TABLES

Usage and purpose of table or the table tags

There are two major purposes of using the tables or the table tags in a web page. (1) To arrange the information in a table on a web page is the more obvious purpose and (2) Use of the hidden or invisible tables while creating a page layout is less obvious but widely used purpose.

HTML Tags used in creating a table

- Opening or starting tag.

- Closing or ending tag.

(Table Heading) - Opening or starting tag defines a cell that is header of a group of cells in a table.

(Table Data) - Opening or starting tag of a cell of the table that contains data.

SN	Attribute	Permitted Value	Usage
1	Bgcolor	rgb(?, ?, ?) #??????(6 figure color code)	Used to define the back ground color. (HTML5 does not support)
2	cellpading	pixels	Defines the space between the wall and the table contents. (HTML5 does not support)
3	align	left right centre	Defines the alignment of a table(HTML5 does not support)
4	border	1 0	Defines borders of a table. (HTML5 does not support)
5	frame	void above hsides lhs rhs vsides box border	Used to define the sides of a table’s outside border to be visible. (HTML5 does not support)
6	cellspecing	pixels	Used to define space between cells of a table. (HTML5 does not support)
7	sortable	sortable	Used to define the table is sortable
8	rules	all none groups rows cols	Used to define the sides of a table’s inside border to be visible. (HTML5 does not support)
9	width	Pixel %	Used to define the width of a table(HTML5 does not support)
10	summary	text	Used to define summary of the table contents(HTML5 does not support)