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A SHORT STORY OF HTML TABLES – PART 1/2
March 21, 2009
Geeta Punjabi, Raleigh, North Carolina
123Triad: Web Design & SEO Company
A SHORT STORY OF HTML TABLES – PART 1/2
What is a table, as understood in the field of web design? Before we say something about a table, let us put ourselves in the proper perspective. When people do web design work, their basic medium is the web page, which is a document composed with the use of HyperText Markup Language (HTML). The web page is to web design as canvass is to a portrait painting. The web page is also called an HTML page or an HTML document.
The elements found in the HTML document are identified with the use of tags. The document itself is its own element, and it is represented by the <HTML> tag. The tag, as you can see, is a name enclosed in angle brackets. The angle brackets are the symbols used by a browser — the software that can read, interpret, render and display a web page — to identify HTML tags as such. Read a good book about HTML to know more.
In the body of a web page are elements through which information can be conveyed to a reader. Here are a few examples: headings (represented by the tags <H1>, <H2>, up to <H6>); paragraphs (represented by the <P> tag); images (represented by the <IMG> tag), links (represented by the “anchor” or <A> tag), and tables (represented by, you guessed it, the <TABLE> tag).
The HTML table is used in the same way as that in a word processing program like Microsoft Word, a spreadsheet program like Microsoft Excel, or on paper in ordinary human writing. It is a visual structure provided for the purpose of presenting information in rows and columns, like in a telephone directory. In Excel, the grid that you see on the monitor is a table; rows are represented by numbers on the left, columns by letters at the top.
The creative manipulation of elements in a web page, the table included, is the most intensive activity in web design.
For many years since the infancy of the Web up to the present, tables are omnipresent in HTML pages because web design artists fell in love with them. You will know the reason in Part
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