HTML and CSS Reference
In-Depth Information
Name
table
Synopsis
<table> . . . </table>
Indicates a table used for displaying rows and columns of data or information. The minimum
elements for defining a table are
table
for establishing the table itself,
tr
for declaring a table
row, and
td
for creating table cells within the row. The complete table model is shown below.
Usage
Categories:
Flow content, palpable content
Permitted contexts:
Where flow content is expected
Permitted content:
In this order: optional
caption
element, then zero or more
colgroup
elements, followed
optionally by a
thead
element, followed optionally by a
tfoot
element, followed by
either zero or more
tbody
elements or one or more
tr
elements, followed optionally by a
tfoot
element (there may only be one
tfoot
element total)
Start/end tags:
Required/Required
Attributes
HTML5 Global Attributes
border="
number of pixels
number of pixels
"
W3C only
. Specifies the width (in pixels) of the border around the table and its cells. Set-
ting its value to 0 (zero) turns the borders off completely. The default value is 1. Adding
