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or height that is a percentage of what is available to the element. Example 2.8
shows a loated table with a
width
attribute. he
tr
element deines a table row,
and the
th
and
td
elements deine table cells. Tables are discussed in more
detail later in this chapter.
Example 2.8: An HTML table with
width
and
float
attributes
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Example 2.8</title>
<style type="text/css">
body { padding: 30px; line-height: 1.5em; }
td { text-align: right; padding: 5px; }
th { text-align: left; padding: 5px; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h2 align="center">
Final Exam Results
</h2>
<table width="33%" align="right" hspace="12" border="1">
<tr><th></th><th>
Points
</th><th>
Grade
</th></tr>
<tr><th>
Larry
</th><td>
86
</td><td>
B+
</td></tr>
<tr><th>
Heidi
</th><td>
91
</td><td>
A
</td></tr>
</table>
<p>
The final exam required students to create an HTML page
containing a floating table. Larry lost a number of points
because he used
<em>
align
</em>
and
<em>
hspace
</em>
attributes in
the table statement instead of using the CSS
<em>
float
</em>
and
<em>
padding
</em>
properties in his entry entitled,
<cite>
Example
2.8
</cite>
.
</p>
</body>
</html>
Note the use of the
cite
element to mark up a title. Figure 2.8 shows how
this HTML appears in a browser.
