Special Edition Using Microsoft Expression Web 2

Chapter 9. Using Tables and Layout Tables

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• The Origin of Tables

• The Makeup of an HTML Table Tag

• Rows, Columns, and Cells

• Tables in Expression Web 2

• Layout Tables and Cells

• Using the Layout Tables Task Pane

• Troubleshooting

• Lagniappe: Designing for Multiple Resolutions Using Tables

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The Origin of Tables

If you look back at the origins of HTML, you’ll see a handful of particle physicists formulating a method for displaying scientific and educational data. Much of that information lent itself quite well to being displayed in a tabular format, and out of necessity, HTML tables were born.

Note

I kind of squeezed many years into the above paragraph. HTML was actually created in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee. The first ...