HTML Table tag CSS style
Html Table can have header, footer, column and rows.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create html table using CSS style sheet class, we can write dynamic css class for HTML table header footer row etc.
Learn Html TABLE Tag
Table tag <table></table>
is used when we want to display something in a table structure
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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
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You can merge Table-cells using
colspanandrowspanattributes -
Table Header - using
<thead> -
Table Footer - using
<tfoot> -
Table Body - using
<tbody>
Merge Table cells in HTML
Merging cells like when you want to have a section header or footer, you can merge horizontal cells using colspan attribute.
<tr> <td colspan="2"> colspan example </td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> <td></td> </tr>
Thead in Table header
Thead tag used for table header we can directly write css for tHead element.
<thead> <tr> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> </thead>
TFoot for HTML Table footer
TFoot tag used for table footer we can directly write css for TFoot element.
<tfoot> <tr> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> </tfoot>
Table tbody element
tbody tag contain the body part of the table element, we can apply css class on tbody element.
<tbody> <tr> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> </tbody>
Html Table Elements
Here is the output, you can see this table has all css style, header color, footer color, row has different color and font style.
| 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.