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Table Tutor |
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Hello.
My name is Joe 
and I'm going to give
you a few simple lessons on how to make tables for your web documents. You
might be thinking that a table is simply one of these
but if you've ever seen some of them fancy-like
web pages you might be interested to find out that they make good use of
the <table> tags! Just to illustrate, here is the same page
with a gray background and the table borders turned on.
The whole mess basically has only 3
tags...
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<table> |
The main tag. Used to tell the browser "this is a
table", along with some attributes like size, border width and a few
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<tr> |
Table Row defines a horizontal row of <td> (Table
Data) cells. |
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<td> |
Specifies an individual block or cell in a table row. |
To paraphrase: A table is
made up of rows which in turn are made up of cells...
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<--this-- |
----is--- |
----a---- |
--table-- |
---row--> |
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cell |
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cell |
Well, that's tables in a nutshell.
You are now ready to make some tables! Now's a good time to stress that if you
want to learn how to make quality html documents, then you would be well served
to take the time to teach yourself the tags. If you rely on the so-called
"table wizards" in the "easy as pie html editors" out
there, you will have greatly limited flexibilty, and
the end result may not be what you are trying to achieve. In my opinion the
best html editors to use are text based editors or just plain text editors.