Summary of Table Tags 173TablesSummary of Table TagsWeb Design in a Nutshell, eMatter EditionAttributes
align=left|center|right|justify|char
Specifies horizontal alignment (or justification) of cell contents.
char=character
Specifies a character along which the cell contents will be aligned. The default
character is a decimal point (language-appropriate).
charoff=length
Specifies the distance to the first alignment character (char) on each line. If a
line doesn’t use an alignment character, it should be horizontally shifted to
end at the alignment position.
valign=top|middle|bottom|baseline
Specifies vertical alignment of cell contents.
Defines a table data cell. The end tag is not required, but may prevent unpredict-
able table display, particularly if the cell contains images. A table cell can contain
any content, including another table.
Attributes
align=left|center|right
Aligns the text (or other elements) within a table cell. The default value is
left. This attribute has been deprecated by the W3C 4.0 Spec in favor of
positioning with style sheets.
background=url
Specifies a graphic image to be used as a tile within the cell. Netscape’s docu-
mentation does not cover this tag, but it is supported by version 4.0.
bgcolor="#rrggbb" orcolor name
Specifies a color to be used in the table cell. A cell’s background color over-
rides colors specified at the row or table levels.
colspan=number
Specifies the number of columns the current cell should span. The default
value is 1. According to the W3C 4.0 Specification, the value zero (“0”) means
the current cell spans all columns from the current column to the last column
in the table; in reality, however, this feature is not supported in currently
available 4.0 browsers.
height=number, percentage
Specifies the height of the cell in number of pixels or by a percentage value
relative to the table height. The height specified in the first column will apply
to the rest of the cells in the row. The height values need to be consistent for
cells in a particular row. This attribute has been deprecated in the W3C 4.0
Specification.