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2.10. Tables
For a language that emerged from academiaa world steeped in datait's
not surprising to find that HTML (and now its progeny, XHTML) supports
a set of tags for data tables that not only align your numbers, but can
specially format your text, too.
Eight tags enable tables; including the
<table>
tag itself and a
<caption>
tag for including a description of the table. Special tag attributes let you
change the look and dimensions of the table. You create a table row by
row, putting between the table row (
<tr>
) tag and its end tag (
</tr>
)
either table header (
<th>
) or table data (
<td>
) tags and their respective
contents for each cell in the table (end tags, too, with XHTML). Head-
ers and data may contain nearly any regular content, including text, im-
ages, forms, and even another table. As a result, you can also use tables
for advanced text formatting, such as for multicolumn text and sidebar
headers (see
Figure 2-5
). For more information, see
Chapter 10
.
