Follow the steps below to either add the column to a full-page or matching-height column. Create a full-page column. To create a new column that stretches the full height of the page, click and drag a block until the guideline stretches vertically along the entire page. This creates a new column that splits the entire page.
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The HTML tables allow web authors to arrange data like text, images, links, other tables, etc. into rows and columns of cells.
The HTML tables are created using the <table> tag in which the <tr> tag is used to create table rows and <td> tag is used to create data cells. The elements under <td> are regular and left aligned by default
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Here, the border is an attribute of <table> tag and it is used to put a border across all the cells. If you do not need a border, then you can use border = '0'.
Table Heading
Table heading can be defined using <th> tag. This tag will be put to replace <td> tag, which is used to represent actual data cell. Normally you will put your top row as table heading as shown below, otherwise you can use <th> element in any row. Headings, which are defined in <th> tag are centered and bold by default.
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Cellpadding and Cellspacing Attributes
There are two attributes called cellpadding and cellspacing which you will use to adjust the white space in your table cells. The cellspacing attribute defines space between table cells, while cellpadding represents the distance between cell borders and the content within a cell.
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Colspan and Rowspan Attributes
You will use colspan attribute if you want to merge two or more columns into a single column. Similar way you will use rowspan if you want to merge two or more rows.
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Tables Backgrounds
You can set table background using one of the following two ways −
- bgcolor attribute − You can set background color for whole table or just for one cell.
- background attribute − You can set background image for whole table or just for one cell.
You can also set border color also using bordercolor attribute.
Note − The bgcolor, background, and bordercolor attributes deprecated in HTML5. Do not use these attributes.
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Here is an example of using background attribute. Here we will use an image available in /images directory.
This will produce the following result. Here background image did not apply to table's header.
Table Height and Width
You can set a table width and height using width and height attributes. You can specify table width or height in terms of pixels or in terms of percentage of available screen area.
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Table Caption
The caption tag will serve as a title or explanation for the table and it shows up at the top of the table. This tag is deprecated in newer version of HTML/XHTML.
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Table Header, Body, and Footer
Tables can be divided into three portions − a header, a body, and a foot. The head and foot are rather similar to headers and footers in a word-processed document that remain the same for every page, while the body is the main content holder of the table.
The three elements for separating the head, body, and foot of a table are −
- <thead> − to create a separate table header.
- <tbody> − to indicate the main body of the table.
- <tfoot> − to create a separate table footer.
A table may contain several <tbody> elements to indicate different pages or groups of data. But it is notable that <thead> and <tfoot> tags should appear before <tbody>
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Nested Tables
You can use one table inside another table. Not only tables you can use almost all the tags inside table data tag <td>.
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Following is the example of using another table and other tags inside a table cell.
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The simple answer: Down. The point: Scrolling vertically (up and down) instead of horizontally (sideways) in web pages is much more intuitive and functional. On the negative: Scrolling back and forth, and back and forth, and back and forth (you’re getting the point) with a horizontal scroll bar really breaks the flow when people are trying to read a page.In other words, people can much more easily scroll up and down than they can scroll to the right and left.Although rows (horizontal sets of content) play a role in web page design, columns define page design. A 960 grid page can be as long or short as you want it to be. But one way or another, page design has to allow content to expand down.The basic options are these:.You can have columns without defined height, allowing content to expand down as far as necessary.You can define column heights, but then you have to invoke other techniques for allowing content to expand down, like scrollable or collapsible boxes.If you survey many well-designed web pages, you’ll see that not only are they overwhelmingly laid out in 960 px containers, but they’re all essentially laid out in either two or three columns.Really?
When you survey a lot of well-designed sites, they won’t appear to be laid out in two or three columns. Dollywood rides 2019. They’ll look like they’re laid out in 5 columns, or 8, or 11. But if you hold a ruler or a sheet of paper up to the screen, you’ll see that underlying all the columns in a page is a more basic design.Take a look at the IMDb (Independent Movie DataBase) page.
At first glance, it might appear that this page is laid out in five or even eight columns (if you count the three columns in the lower right). But if you trace a line about three-quarters of the page from the left edge, you can see that underlying the five visible columns (in most of the page) is a more basic two-column structure. That basic two-column division is illustrated here:The takeaway is this: When you design pages, it’s easy to split columns — to divide them into two, three, four, five, and more columns. However, it is technically easy to split page layout elements, but technically difficult to allow content to span across two defined columns. So the rule for technical reasons, is that columns in web design are easy to split but hard to merge.So when it comes time for you to translate a design into a web page, first divide the page into either two or three columns, and then further subdivide those columns as needed.
For example, The New York Times site looks like it’s divided into five columns. But when you zoom out and take a look at the page shown in the following figure, you can see how underneath those five columns are actually two columns, each of which is further subdivided into other columns at times. Or, as in the case of the prominent ad in the right-hand column, content can expand to fill an entire column.There’s an exception to the rule here: The main elements of the page are in a two-column layout, but the header (with the Times masthead) and the footer (not visible in the screenshots) are single-column elements that stretch across the entire 960 px-wide container that frames the page.Does this two or three column rule apply only to online newspapers? The following figure shows that Facebook’s site is divided into two columns, and YouTube is laid out in three columns.