Web Design in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition

Name

table

Synopsis

<table>...</table>

Indicates a table. The end tag is required, and its omission may cause the table not to render in some browsers.

Attributes

Core(id, class, style, title), Internationalization, Events

align="left|right|center"

Deprecated. Aligns the table within the text flow (same as align in the img element). The default alignment is left. The center value is not universally supported.

bgcolor="#rrggbb" or "color name"

Deprecated. Specifies a background color for the entire table. Value is specified in hexadecimal RGB values or by color name. (See Appendix D for more information on specifying colors in HTML.)

border=" number "

Specifies the width (in pixels) of the border around the table and its cells. Setting its value to 0 (zero) turns the borders off completely. The default value is 1. Adding the word border without a value results in a 1-pixel border, although this is not valid in XHTML.

cellpadding=" number "

Sets the amount of space, in number of pixels, between the cell border and its contents. The default value is 1.

cellspacing=" number "

Sets the amount of space (in number of pixels) between table cells. The default value is 2.

frame="void|above|below|hsides|lhs|rhs|vsides|box|border"

Tells the browser where to draw borders around the table. The values are as follows:

Value	Description
void	The frame does not appear (default).
above	Top side only.
below	Bottom side only.
hsides	Top and bottom sides only.
vsides	Right and left sides ...