© Adrian W. West 2016

Adrian W. West, Practical Web Design for Absolute Beginners, 10.1007/978-1-4842-1993-5_16

16. Create Tables for Data

Adrian W. West1 

(1)Colyton, UK

Tables should never be used for page layout, although in the past many web designers used them for this purpose. The practice is now deprecated (obsolete and bad practice). Tables must now be used only for the purpose for which they were originally intended, i.e., for presenting data.

This chapter contains the following sections:

  • Create a simple two-column table

  • Inserting and deleting a table or rows and columns in a WYSIWYG editor

  • Explore the default double border style

  • Placing a four-column table within a web page

  • Summary

Create a Simple Two-Column Table

A simple two-column data table ...

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