Sams Teach Yourself HTML 4 in 24 Hours
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- Tell Us What You Think!
- Put Your HTML Page Online Today
- I. Your First Web Page
- Hour 1. Understanding HTML and XML
- Hour 2. Create a Web Page Right Now
- Hour 3. Linking to Other Web Pages
- Hour 4. Publishing Your HTML Pages
- II. Web Page Text
- Hour 5. Text Alignment and Lists
- Hour 6. Text Formatting and Font Control
- Hour 7. Email Links and Links Within a Page
- Hour 8. Creating HTML Forms
- III. Web Page Graphics
- Hour 9. Creating Your Own Web Page Graphics
- Hour 10. Putting Graphics on a Web Page
- Hour 11. Custom Backgrounds and Colors
- Hour 12. Creating Animated Graphics
- IV. Web Page Design
- Hour 13. Page Design and Layout
- Hour 14. Graphical Links and Imagemaps
- Hour 15. Advanced Layout with Tables
- Hour 16. Using Style Sheets
- V. Dynamic Web Pages
- Hour 17. Embedding Multimedia in Web Pages
- Hour 18. Interactive Pages with Applets and ActiveX
- Hour 19. Web Page Scripting for Non-Programmers
- Hour 20. Setting Pages in Motion with Dynamic HTML
- VI. Building a Web Site
- Hour 21. Multipage Layout with Frames
- Hour 22. Organizing and Managing a Web Site
- Hour 23. Helping People Find Your Web Pages
- Hour 24. Planning for the Future of HTML
- VII. Appendixes
- A. Readers' Most Frequently Asked Questions
- B. HTML Learning Resources on the Internet
- C. Complete HTML 4 Quick Reference
- D. HTML Character Entities
Summary
In this hour you learned to arrange text and images into organized arrangements or rows and columns, called tables. You learned the three basic tags for creating tables and many optional attributes for controlling the alignment, spacing, and appearance of tables. You also saw that tables can be used together and nested within one another for an even wider variety of layout options.
Table 15.1 summarizes the tags and attributes covered in this hour.
Table 15.1. HTML Tags and Attributes Covered in Hour 15
| Tag | Attribute | Function |
| <table>…</table> | Creates a table that can contain any number of rows (<tr> tags). | |
| border="&hellip" | Indicates the width in pixels of the table borders. (border="0", or omitting the border attribute, makes borders invisible.) | |
| cellspacing="&hellip" | The amount of space between the cells in the table. | |
| cellpadding="&hellip" | The amount of space between the edges of the cell and its contents. | |
| width="&hellip" | The width of the table on the page, in either exact pixel values or as a percentage of page width. | |
| bgcolor="&hellip" | Background color of all cells in the table that do not contain their own background or bgcolor attribute. | |
| background="&hellip" | Background image to tile within all cells in the table that do not contain their own background or bgcolor attribute (Microsoft Internet Explorer 3 or later only). | |
| <tr>…</tr> | Defines a table row, containing one or more cells (<td> tags). | |
| align="&hellip" | The horizontal alignment of the contents of the cells within this row. Possible values are left, right, and center. | |
| valign="&hellip" | The vertical alignment of the contents of the cells within this row. Possible values are top, middle, and bottom. | |
| bgcolor="&hellip" | Background color of all cells in the row that do not contain their own background or bgcolor attributes. | |
| background="&hellip" | Background image to tile within all cells in the row that do not contain their own background or bgcolor attributes. | |
| <td>…</td> | Defines a table data cell. | |
| align="&hellip" | The horizontal alignment of the contents of the cell. Possible values are left, right, and center. | |
| valign="&hellip" | The vertical alignment of the contents of the cell. Possible values are top, middle, and bottom. | |
| rowspan="&hellip" | The number of rows this cell will span. | |
| colspan="&hellip" | The number of columns this cell will span. | |
| width="&hellip" | The width of this column of cells, in exact pixel values or as a percentage of the table width. | |
| bgcolor="&hellip" | Background color of the cell. | |
| background="&hellip" | Background image to tile within the cell. | |
| <th>…</th> | Defines a table heading cell. (Takes all the same attributes as <td>.) |
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