HTML tables
headers, borders (cellpadding, cellspacing), nesting
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Headers
You can also add headers to the tops of your columns and the sides of your rows. You can have multiple headers, with the help of COLSPAN and ROWSPAN.
| | Top 1 | Top 2 |
| | Top 3 | Top 4 | Top 5 | Top 6 |
| Side1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| Side2 |
5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
| 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
Borders
You can change the borders of your table by using (or omitting) the BORDER attribute.
| No border
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Default
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BORDER = 2
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BORDER = 5
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BORDER = 10
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Use the CELLPADDING attribute to specify the number of pixels to be left around the text, and CELLSPACING for the number of pixels between cells.
Contents
| Table |
Border |
| padding |
spacing |
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1
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2
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3
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4
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5
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Nesting Tables
The above 2 examples also show how tables can be nested within tables.
