Building Tables
The browser’s output of this code is identical to that in Figure 7-10. The CSS in Listing 7-24 includes some
styling for our newly created column groups. For this example, we’ve dropped the borders on cells, left out
background colors on even rows, and omitted the empty-cells rule.
Listing 7-24. CSS with additional styling for column groupings
table {
width: 600px;
font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 14px;
border-collapse: separate;
border-spacing: 5px;
table-layout: auto;
}
thead th,
tfoot th,
tfoot td {
background: #eee;
}
th,
td {
padding: 10px;
}
thead th:first-child {
text-align: left;
}
tbody th,
tfoot th {
text-align: left;
}