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Chapter 4: Attributes of the <table> Tag
The <table> tag has quite a few other optional attributes that control various aspects of how the table is displayed. These are described in Table 4-1.
The align and bgcolor attributes of the
<table> tag are not supported in XHTML and are deprecated in HTML
4.01. You should use styles to control table alignment and background
color in your Web pages when you are authoring to these standards.
Table 4-1. Additional attributes of the <table> tag.
| Attributes | Values | Descriptions |
| align | left, center, or right | Controls how the entire table is
aligned on the page. |
| bgcolor | a color name, an
rgb() value, or a
hex value
(#xxxxxx) |
Specifies the background color of the table. |
| Attribute | Values | Description |
| border | A number 0 or
higher |
The width of the border in
pixels. Set to 0 for no border. |
| cellpadding | A number with or
without % |
The space between the cell
contents and borders, expressed in pixels or as a percentage of the cell width. |
| cellspacing | A number with or
without % |
The space between cells,
expressed in pixels or as a percentage of the cell width. |
Let's take a look at how the cellpadding and cellspacing attributes work. The following is a modification of the HTML code presented earlier to include these two attributes:
<table width="400" border="2" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="10%">
<tr>
<td>row 1, cell 1</td>
<td>row 1, cell 2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>row 2, cell 1</td>
<td>row 2, cell 2</td>
</tr>
</table>
The resulting table is shown in Figure 4-4 with callouts to the cell spacing
and cell padding. This shows how cell padding is within cells while cell
spacing is between cells.
Figure 4-4. Illustrating the difference between cell padding and
cell spacing.
| Single Borders
The best way to get a single table border is to include the following attribute in the <table> tag:
You'll learn more about using styles with tables in a later Chapter |
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