This is a page devoted to intermediate HTML Programming, Mainly, the use of tables, frames, and othe misc. HTML...




Tables


First off you need to learn how to make a table!

The first thing to do (and I will have to let you know that this is all just plain HTML... no Frontpage, no WYSIWYG... nothing!)

All things having to do with tables start off under the tag "(table)". Which is placed in parentheses only for the fact that if I didn't then it would think a real table was supposed to go there, commonly you use <>.
Common Table attributes (which go inside the "<>" with table) are border, width, height, bgcolor, and bordercolor. All of which are very self explanatory. Border defines the size of the border, width and height are about size, BGcolor has to do with the background color while Bordercolor has to do with the color of the border.
For instance i will show what a table with the code of
"(table border=3 width=100 height=75 bordercolor=green bgcolor=gray)"



Now obviously you didn't see anything, well that's because you just told it that is where a table is supposed to go, we didnot tell it what made up the table which are rows (tr) and data cells (td) all of which must be ended with a / in front lke normal HTML. now lets try it with a row and a data field in it. And always remember you end from inside out so close out your td before your tr
this is with one row one cell
This is with one rowtwo cells
And this is 2 rows
One cell apeice

Now even though I mentioned width and height in table they are more commonly used in cells just like in the table tag. For example, if I had a table with a cell 50 pixels wide it would look like this:
50 pixels wide But since I didn't specify a height it keeps on going...50 pixels high... but no width restraint


As you can see, if you keep the cells in the same table, they will form to match the other, but only in the border... which can be set to zero (0) to keep it from showing, which can give your website a very newspaper column look.
That's all for now! do your best and if get confused consult a manual or use a search engine... my favorite is Dogpile