Table tag in HTML

Learn Html TABLE Tag

Table tag <table></table> is used when we want to display something in a table structure

Table is defined using <table> tag, a table contains row and column.
To create a row <tr> element is used, a table can have any number of rows.
To create a column use <td> element.

You need to place the TD element inside the row, this is how you write

<tr>
               
<td>Col 1</td>
               
<td>Col 2</td>
               
</tr>

This is how a simple html table may look like.

<table>
<tr>
<td>Header 1</td>
<td>Header 2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Content 1</td>
<td>Content  2</td>
</tr>
</table>

Now we learn few more optional elements in table tag

You can merge Table-cells using colspan and rowspan attributes
Table Header - using <thead>
Table Footer - using <tfoot>
Table Body - using <tbody>

Merge Table cells in HTML

<tr>           
<td colspan="2"> colspan example  </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>

Thead in Table header

<thead> <tr>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</thead>

TFoot for HTML Table footer

<tfoot>            
<tr>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</tfoot>

Using tbody for HTML Table body content

<tbody>
<tr>            
<td></td>            
<td></td>            
</tr>            
</tbody>

Html Table Elements

Element	Description
thead	this is table header section
tbody
tfoot	this is table footer section
colspan	when we need to merge two cells
this is an example of footer and colspan

Here is the code for HTML Table sample, now you can write CSS class for Table

<table class="tabTask" style="width:100%;"> 
<thead> 
    <tr> 
        <td> Element </td> 
        <td> Description </td> 
    </tr> 
</thead> 
<tbody>
    <tr>
        <td></td> 
        <td></td>
    </tr> 
</tbody>
<tfoot> 
    <tr> 
        <td colspan="2" style="text-align:center;"> this is an example of footer and colspan </td>
                    
    </tr>
</tfoot>
</table>

Whatever you can view on any webpage comes under <body></body> tag

We suggest not to use table while designing a webpage if not necessary, this is not good for responsive layout design and not good for SEO , instead try to use div , span etc.

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