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- Quick Guide to...
- HTML Tables
-
- The previous writer of these parts has decided to give up. More for
- me to do... hmmmm.... aren't I lucky... :) Anyway, someone suggested
- HTML tables as a topic for this, and since I've just got the hang
- of legal HTML tables (as opposed to illegal ones) myself, I think I
- may aswell give you the benefit of my new-found experience.
-
- Tables in HTML start off with a TABLE tag. Easy. There are several
- arguments you can give in this tag...
-
- WIDTH= This is the width of the table overall. You can specify
- this in percent or pixels. eg, WIDTH=90% or WIDTH=150
-
- HEIGHT= This is the height of the table. Specify using the
- same syntax as WIDTH
-
- BORDER= The width of the table border in pixels. eg, BORDER=0
-
- CELLPADDING= The size of the padding around a cell, in pixels.
-
- CELLSPACING= The space between a cell of the table.
-
- So, that's the table started off. If you're going to be using width
- definitions in the cells, then you need to define a width of the overall
- table of things may start to look strange.
-
- For your table to be legal, you need to start off the first row of
- cells. You do this using the <TR> (Table Row) tag. This includes some
- parameters. WIDTH and HEIGHT can be used. Others are available, but
- can be covered later if anyone asks.
-
- <TABLE WIDTH=500 HEIGHT=500 BORDER=0>
- <TR>
-
- That's what you have so far. Notice I've started indenting the code.
- This is just for ease of reading, and is not compulsary. You now
- need to define a cell. You do this using the <TD> tag. This allows
- the width and height parameters, as well as these:
-
- COLSPAN= This is the number of columns that the cell you are
- creating will span across the top of.
-
- +------------+---+
- | 1 | 2 |
- +---+----+---+---+
- | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
- +---+----+---+---+
-
- Cell number 1 spans 3 columns (goes over the top of 3 columns that is).
- The HTML code for the above table would look something like this:
-
- <TABLE BORDER=0> Start the table
- <TR> Start the first row
- <TD COLSPAN=3> Start the first cell
- This is cell 1
- </TD> End the first cell
- <TD COLSPAN=1> Start the second cell
- This is cell 2
- </TD> End the second cell
- </TR> End the first row
- <TR> Start the second row
- <TD COLSPAN=1> Start of third cell
- This is cell 3
- </TD> End of third cell
- <TD COLSPAN=1> Start of fourth cell
- This is cell 4
- </TD> End of fourth cell
- <TD COLSPAN=1> Start of fifth cell
- This is cell 5
- </TD> End of fifth cell
- <TD COLSPAN=1> Start of sixth cell
- This is cell 6
- </TD> End of sixth cell
- </TR> End of second row
- </TABLE> End of table
-
- You can also have a BGCOLOR argument in the TD tag which allows you
- to specify a colour for the cell using either normal HTML colour
- definitions such as 'Black', 'Green', etc or Hex values such as
- '#00ff00'. Just remember to close all your tags and it's legal! (Well
- nearly :)
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