HTML Tables Attributes
Examples of How They Look
Attributes that are not part of the specification
Table Attribute - align (deprecated)
| This table is right aligned |
| Text flows around it to the left |
This is text that is flowing around the table.
Use CSS to Align Tables
| This table is floated to the right |
| Text flows around it to the left |
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Table Attribute - border
| This is a border with a 1px border. |
And here is the second example:
| And this table has a border of 10. |
Table Attribute - cellpadding
| This table has a cellpadding of 20. |
| Cells will be separated by 20 pixels. |
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Table Attribute - cellspacing
| This table has a cellspacing of 20. |
| Cells will be separated by 20 pixels. |
Table Attribute - frame
| This table |
will have |
| only the |
left side framed. |
And another example
| This table has a frame on the bottom. |
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Table Attribute - rules
| This 4x4 table has |
the rows not columns |
| outlined with the |
rules attribute. |
| the more rows |
there are |
| the more rules there are |
And here is an example with the columns highlighted:
| This is |
a table |
where the |
| columns |
are |
highlighted |
| not |
the |
rows |
Table Attribute - summary
| column 1 row 1 |
column 2 row 1 |
| column 1 row 2 |
column 2 row 2 |
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Table Attribute - width
| This table is 80% of the width of the container it's in. |
Non-Standard Table Attribute - bgcolor (deprecated)
| This table has a grey background |
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Use CSS to Set a Background Color
| This table has a grey background |
Non-Standard Table Attribute - height
| This table is at least 30 ems high. |
Non-Standard Table Attribute - hspace and vspace
| This table has a vspace of 20 pixels and an hspace of 40 pixels. |
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Non-Standard Table Attribute - nowrap
| This is a column with a lot of content. But even if it is wider than the container the text should not wrap to the next line. |
Non-Standard Table Attribute - valign
| The text in this table should be aligned to the bottom of the table cells. |
Here is another cell. |
| Here is another cell. |
Here is another cell. |
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