Tables.....

cvanamber · Joined: 01 Nov 2007 Posts: 1

Hi there I am very new at designing a webpage. I have html 4 for dummies...and it has worked pretty well. I have loaded my page and so far everything looks very basic. I need some help..

Can someone explain a to me what a table does? From my understanding it gives you a better layout for you page?

If so does anyone have a basic table I can use?

beginner.html · Joined: 02 Aug 2007 Posts: 365

Yes, it also organizes the way you put information. For example :

CAT AGE BREED SEX AVG LIFE SPAN

This information can be put in the table to better separate each category.

Here is an example code for a table I have from a site I made:

<tr><td align="center" colspan=5>TURNS LEFT:<input type="button" value="10" name="left"></td>

<td colspan=5 align="center">TIME REMAINING:<input type="button" value="60" name="clock"></td>
<td colspan=3 align="center"><input type="button" value="Again" onclick="location='hangman.html';">
</td></form></tr></table>

sticks464 · Joined: 31 Dec 2006 Posts: 1117

The purpose of a table is to contain tabular data like an excel spreedsheet, not for site layout. That's what x/html and css is for.