Overview

Hello, budding developers! In today's lesson, we'll delve into creating and arranging HTML tables. HTML tables are a cornerstone tool used to present data in a structured, easily digestible format on web pages. They can bring an intricate spreadsheet, or a neatly arranged menu at a restaurant, to your webpage. This lesson will walk you through the process of creating a simple HTML table, helping you understand its various components, and teaching you how to use different attributes to enhance it.

Building the Foundation: HTML Table Basics

Understanding the structure of HTML tables is as straightforward as focusing on three fundamental building blocks — tables, rows, and cells, each represented as an HTML tag:

  • <table>: This tag commences and concludes the table.
  • <tr>: This tag marks the beginning and end of each "table row" in our table.
  • <th> and <td>: These are designed to denote the "table header" and "table data" cells in a row. The <th> tag is typically used for header cells (column titles), and <td> is used for the more conventional data cells.

For instance, let's construct a two-by-two table:

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