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.
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:
