About Lesson
HTML TABLE
There may be times when you’ll wish to display a table of data on your website. Let’s get started by converting the table below to HTML.
If you’ve never dealt with tabular data before, it’s helpful to understand that a table is made up of rows and columns.
Example
So how do we apply these concepts to HTML? First, we need to declare an HTML table by using the
<table>
tag<table></table>
To add a row to our table, use the
<tr>
<table>
<tr></tr>
</table>
To add individual pieces of data (the cells) corresponding to the columns, use the
<td>
tag, which means table data.To indicate that a cell is part of the header, use the
<th>
tag instead of <td>
<table>
<tr>
<td>first 1</td>
<td>second 2</td>
<td>third 3</td>
<td>fourth 4 </td>
</tr>
</table>
Now let us combine this to make a full table.
HTML Table Tags
Tag | Description |
---|---|
<table> | Defines a table |
<th> | Defines a header cell in a table |
<tr> | Defines a row in a table |
<td> | Defines a cell in a table |
<caption> | Defines a table caption |
<colgroup> | Specifies a group of one or more columns in a table for formatting |
<col> | Specifies column properties for each column within a <colgroup> element |
<thead> | Groups the header content in a table |
<tbody> | Groups the body content in a table |
<tfoot> | Groups the footer content in a table |
See the complete list here.