A SHORT STORY OF HTML TABLES – PART 2/2

Geeta Punjabi, Raleigh, North Carolina
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A SHORT STORY OF HTML TABLES – PART 2/2

HTML tables are defined with opening and closing table tags: <TABLE> </TABLE>. An Opening tag and closing tag look nearly alike except that the latter contains the forward-slash character (/) immediately next to the left angle bracket. Thus <TABLE> is the opening tag, while </TABLE> is the closing tag.

However, table tags alone are not enough to produce a table display on the web page. Within the opening and closing table tags, there must be a pair of row tags: <TR> </TR>, and within the pair of row tags, there must be a pair of column tags: <TD> </TD>.

A minimum complete definition for a table with one row and a single column, plus a message inside the table that says “Web design with tables, anyone?”, is this:

<TABLE><TR><TD>Web design with tables, anyone?</TD></TR></TABLE>

Can you imagine how messy the innards of a web page would look to the average Jane and John if you have a table with just 10 rows and 5 columns? That’s 10 <TR> tag pairs, each containing 5 <TD> tag pairs.

When web design people wish to use tables on their pages, they can control its width and how it is aligned on the screen in relation to the left and right margins of the screen.

Web designers can decide whether or not to put borders on HTML tables. If they wish to use table borders, they can choose how thin or thick it is, and specify its color.

Speaking of color, HTML allows designers to specify background color for individual columns in a table row, not to forget that they can color text inside the table, or use a color picture instead of text, or put text and color picture together in the same table cell.

To tempt our friendly web design guy even more, HTML allows a table to be placed inside another table. This process is called nesting.

The possibilities for prettifying the appearance of a web page through tables are abundant. Small wonder why people use them in ways other than originally intended by the creator of HTML.

And no wonder why designers love HTML tables dearly.

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