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14. HTML5 Tables: Constructing Data in a Tabular Format

Wallace Jackson

(1)Lompoc, California, USA

Let’s talk about the ten table creation tags for HTML5. They allow developers to create different types of table-based content, using a tabular format in a grid-based layout. These more specialized table-related tags allow HTML5 developers to define their document tabular content with a significant amount of flexibility, using less than a dozen tags. The table tags are inherently semantic because they are clearly used to define tables of data collections and information grids.

The chapter explains table tags, which implement tabular content in HTML. All ...

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