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HTML Tables FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions about HTML Tables

By Jennifer Kyrnin, About.com

  1. How do you build a table?
  2. What's the difference between th and td HTML table tags?
  3. What do the colspan and rowspan attributes do?
  4. How do you change the background color of a table? a row? a cell? a column?
  5. How do I set an image as a background for a table?
  6. How can I convert an Excel document to an HTML table?
  7. How can I include one table inside another?
  8. How do you make a sidebar item in an article?
  9. How do you use a table to line up images like a "jigsaw" puzzle?
  10. Why are there spaces between my images when I set up a "jigsaw" table?
  11. Why do my empty cells disappear in Netscape?
  12. I wrote a table that looks fine in Internet Explorer, but it doesn't display at all in Netscape. Why?

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