Web Development and Design Foundations with XHTML, 5th Edition

A.11 Table Tags^593

The <tr>Ta g

<tr></tr>

The <tr>tag creates a table row. Table A.19 shows <tr>tag attributes and their

values.

The <td>Ta g

<td></td>

The <td>tag creates a table cell. Table A.20 shows <td>tag attributes and their values.

Table A.18

Attribute Value Usage

title A text description of the table This brief description may be displayed as a tooltip by

some browsers. This attribute may be accessed by

some screen readers.

width Number of pixels or a percentage Specifies the width of the table.

Table A.19

Attribute Value Usage

align "left"(default), "center", "right" Specifies the horizontal alignment of the cells.

bgcolor A valid color; the W3C recommends hexadeci-

mal colors

Specifies the color of the background.

valign "top", "middle"(default), "bottom" Specifies the vertical alignment of the cells.

Table A.20<td> and <th>tag attributes

Attribute Value Usage

align "left"(default), "center",

"right"

Specifies the horizontal alignment of the cell.

bgcolor A valid color; the W3C recommends

hexadecimal colors

Specifies the color of the background. (Deprecated)

colspan Numeric Specifies the number of columns spanned by a cell.

headers The id value(s) of a column or row

heading cell

Associates data cells with header cells. This attribute may be

accessed by assistive technologies such as screen readers.

height Number of pixels Specifies the height of the cell. (Deprecated)

nowrap "nowrap" Forces the browser to display all the text in the cell on one

line. (Deprecated)

rowspan Numeric Specifies the number of rows spanned by a cell.

scope "row", "col" Specifies the scope of the table cell contents (rowor

column). This attribute may be accessed by screen readers

but is not as well supported as the headersand idattri-

butes (see Chapter 8).

valign "top", "middle"(default),

"bottom"

Specifies the vertical alignment of the cell.

width Number of pixels or a percentage Specifies the width of the cell. (Deprecated)