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HTML - Tables
The HTML tables allow web authors to arrange data like text, images, links, other tables, etc. into
rows and columns of cells.
The HTML tables are created using the <ttablle> tag in which the <ttr> tag is used to create table rows
and
<ttd> tag is used to create data cells. The elements under <td> are regular and left aligned by default
Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Tables</title>
</head>
<body>
<table border = "1">
<tr>
<td>Row 1, Column 1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
This will produce the following result −
Row 1, Column 1 Row 1, Column 2

Here, the border is an attribute of <table> tag and it is used to put a border across all the cells. If you
do not need a border, then you can use border = "0".
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Table Heading
Table heading can be defined using <tth> tag. This tag will be put to replace <td> tag, which is used
to represent actual data cell. Normally you will put your top row as table heading as shown below,
otherwise you can use <th> element in any row. Headings, which are defined in <th> tag are centered
and bold by default.
Examplle
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Table Header</title>
</head>
<body>
<tr>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Salary</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Ramesh Raman</td>
<td>5000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Shabbir Hussein</td>
<td>7000</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
Name Salary
Ramesh Raman 5000
Shabbir Hussein 7000
Cellpadding and Cellspacing Attributes

There are two attributes called cellllpaddiing and cellllspaciing which you will use to adjust the white
space in your table cells. The cellspacing attribute defines space between table cells, while
cellpadding represents
the distance between cell borders and the content within a cell.
Examplle
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Table Cellpadding</title>
</head>
<body>
<table border = "1" cellpadding = "5" cellspacing = "5">
<tr>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Salary</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>5000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>7000</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
Name Salary
Ramesh Raman 5000
Colspan and Rowspan Attributes

You will use collspan attribute if you want to merge two or more columns into a single column.
Similar way you will use rowspan if you want to merge two or more rows.
Examplle
Liive Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Table Colspan/Rowspan</title>
</head>
<body>
<tr>
<th>Column 1</th>
<th>Column 2</th>
<th>Column 3</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan = "2">Row 1 Cell 1</td>
<td>Row 1 Cell 2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan = "3">Row 3 Cell 1</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
Column 1 Column 2 Column 3

Row 1 Cell 2 Row 1 Cell 3
Row 1 Cell 1
Row 3 Cell 1
Tables Backgrounds
You can set table background using one of the following two ways −
bgcollor attribute − You can set background color for whole table or just for one cell.
background attribute − You can set background image for whole table or just for one cell.
You can also set border color also using bordercollor attribute.
Notte − The bgcollorr, backgrround, and borrderrcollorr attributes deprecated in HTML5. Do not use
these attributes.
Examplle
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Table Background</title>
</head>
<body>
<table border = "1" bordercolor = "green" bgcolor = "yellow">
<tr>
<th>Column 1</th>
<th>Column 2</th>
<th>Column 3</th>
</tr>
<tr>
</tr>
<tr>
</tr>
<tr>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

Row 1 Cell 1
Row 3 Cell 1
Here is an example of using background attribute. Here we will use an image available in /images
directory.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Table Background</title>
</head>
<body>
<table border = "1" bordercolor = "green" background = "/images/test.png">
<tr>
<th>Column 1</th>
<th>Column 2</th>
<th>Column 3</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Row 1 Cell 2</td><td>Row 1 Cell 3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
</tr>
<tr>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
This will produce the following result. Here background image did not apply to table's header.

Row 1 Cell 1
Row 3 Cell 1
Table Height and Width

You can set a table width and height using wiidtth and heiightt attributes. You can specify table width
or height in terms of pixels or in terms of percentage of available screen area.
Examplle
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Table Width/Height</title>
</head>
<body>
<table border = "1" width = "400" height = "150">
<tr>
</tr>
<tr>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
Table Caption
The capttiion tag will serve as a title or explanation for the table and it shows up at the top of the
table. This tag is deprecated in newer version of HTML/XHTML.
Examplle
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Table Caption</title>
</head>
<body>
<table border = "1" width = "100%">
<caption>This is the caption</caption>
<tr>
<td>row 1, column 1</td><td>row 1, columnn 2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>row 2, column 1</td><td>row 2, columnn 2</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
This is the caption

row 1, column 1 row 1, column 2
row 2, column 1 row 2, column 2
Table Header, Body, and Footer
Tables can be divided into three portions − a header, a body, and a foot. The head and foot are rather
similar to headers and footers in a word-processed document that remain the same for every page,
while the body is the main content holder of the table.
The three elements for separating the head, body, and foot of a table are −
<tthead> − to create a separate table header.
<ttbody> − to indicate the main body of the table.
<ttffoott> − to create a separate table footer.
A table may contain several <tbody> elements to indicate diifffferrentt pages or groups of data. But it is
notable that <thead> and <tfoot> tags should appear before <tbody>
Examplle
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Table</title>
</head>
<body>
<thead>
<tr>
<td colspan = "4">This is the head of the table</td>
</tr>
</thead>
<tfoot>
<tr>
<td colspan = "4">This is the foot of the table</td>
</tr>
</tfoot>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Cell 1</td>
<td>Cell 2</td>
<td>Cell 3</td>
<td>Cell 4</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</body>
</html>
This is the head of the table

Cell 1 Cell 2 Cell 3 Cell 4
This is the foot of the table
Nested Tables
You can use one table inside another table. Not only tables you can use almost all the tags inside
table data tag <td>.
Examplle
Following is the example of using another table and other tags inside a table cell.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Table</title>
</head>
<body>
<tr>
<td>
<tr>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Salary</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>5000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>7000</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
Name Salary
Ramesh Raman 5000

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This will produce the following result −

Row 1, Column 1 Row 1, Column 2

This will produce the following result −

Cellpadding and Cellspacing Attributes

This will produce the following result −

Ramesh Raman 5000

Shabbir Hussein 7000

Colspan and Rowspan Attributes

This will produce the following result −

Column 1 Column 2 Column 3

This will produce the following result −

Column 1 Column 2 Column 3

Column 1 Column 2 Column 3

Table Height and Width

This will produce the following result −

Row 1, Column 1 Row 1, Column 2

Row 2, Column 1 Row 2, Column 2

This will produce the following result −

This is the caption

Table Header, Body, and Footer

<tthead> − to create a separate table header.

<ttbody> − to indicate the main body of the table.

<ttffoott> − to create a separate table footer.

This will produce the following result −

This is the head of the table

This will produce the following result −

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