Tables - Overview

If you look at the source of most web pages on the Internet today, they will contain tables. This is probably due to the way browsers render HTML. When a browser renders HTML code it positions each object (block of text or image) relative to the other. The advantage of this way of positioning is that content can be fitted to any browser page size. The disadvantage is that the layout of the web page you design on your computer can look very different on someone else’s machine. Using tables you can, to some degree, force a browser to display your page content the way you want it to be displayed. If a table is to big for a browser window, you force the window to display horizontal scroll bars indicating that there is more content to be displayed rather than the browser moving your images to a new position.

A table is made of cells. Each cell can have its own properties - such as background color, width, thickness etc. The table also has its own properties as well, such as border thickness etc.

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  • A disadvantage of tables is that all images in a table must be fully loaded before they can be displayed unless you are very careful to include each image's height and width in their tag definition. By default PageWiz includes these attributes.