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HTML Tables
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HTML tables allow web developers to arrange data into rows and columns.

Example

Company Contact Country

Alfreds Futterkiste Maria Anders Germany

Centro comercial Moctezuma Francisco Chang Mexico

Ernst Handel Roland Mendel Austria

Island Trading Helen Bennett UK

Laughing Bacchus Winecellars Yoshi Tannamuri Canada

Magazzini Alimentari Riuniti Giovanni Rovelli Italy

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Define an HTML Table

A table in HTML consists of table cells inside rows and columns.

Example
A simple HTML table:

<table>
  <tr>
    <th>Company</th>
    <th>Contact</th>
    <th>Country</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Alfreds Futterkiste</td>
    <td>Maria Anders</td>
    <td>Germany</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Centro comercial Moctezuma</td>
    <td>Francisco Chang</td>
    <td>Mexico</td>
  </tr>
</table>

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Table Cells
Each table cell is defined by a <td> and a </td> tag.

td stands for table data.

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Everything between <td> and </td> are the content of the table cell.

Example

<table>
  <tr>
    <td>Emil</td>
    <td>Tobias</td>
    <td>Linus</td>
  </tr>
</table>

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Note: A table cell can contain all sorts of HTML elements: text, images, lists, links, other
tables, etc.

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Table Rows
Each table row starts with a <tr> and ends with a </tr> tag.

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tr stands for table row.

Example
<table>
  <tr>
    <td>Emil</td>
    <td>Tobias</td>
    <td>Linus</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>16</td>
    <td>14</td>
    <td>10</td>
  </tr>
</table>

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You can have as many rows as you like in a table; just make sure that the number of
cells are the same in each row.

Note: There are times when a row can have less or more cells than another. You will
learn about that in a later chapter.

Table Headers
Sometimes you want your cells to be table header cells. In those cases use the <th>
tag instead of the <td> tag:

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th stands for table header.

Example
Let the first row be table header cells:

<table>
  <tr>
    <th>Person 1</th>
    <th>Person 2</th>
    <th>Person 3</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Emil</td>
    <td>Tobias</td>
    <td>Linus</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>16</td>
    <td>14</td>
    <td>10</td>
  </tr>
</table>

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By default, the text in <th> elements are bold and centered, but you can change that
with CSS.

HTML Exercises

Test Yourself With Exercises

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Exercise:
Add a table row with two table headers.

The two table headers should have the value "Name" and "Age".

<table>
  
    
    
  
  <tr>
    <td>Jill Smith</td>
    <td>50</td>
  </tr>
</table>

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HTML Table Tags

Tag Description

<table> Defines a table

<th> Defines a header cell in a table

<tr> Defines a row in a table

<td> Defines a cell in a table

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<caption> Defines a table caption

<colgroup> Specifies a group of one or more columns in a table for formatting

<col> Specifies column properties for each column within a <colgroup>

element

<thead> Groups the header content in a table

<tbody> Groups the body content in a table

<tfoot> Groups the footer content in a table

For a complete list of all available HTML tags, visit our HTML Tag Reference.

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