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Web Design in a Nutshell
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Web Design in a Nutshell

by Jennifer Niederst
November 1998
Intermediate to advanced
578 pages
28h 15m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

<colgroup> — NN: 2, 3, 4 - MSIE: 2, 3, 4, 5 - HTML 4 - WebTV - Opera3

Synopsis

                     <colgroup>...</colgroup>
                  

Creates a column group, a structural division within a table that can be appointed attributes with style sheets or HTML. A table may include more than one column group. The number of columns in a group is specified either by the value of the span attribute or by a tally of columns <col> within the group. Its end tag is optional.

Column groups and columns were introduced by Internet Explorer 3.0 and are now proposed by the HTML 4.0 Specification as a standard way to label table structure. They may also be useful in speeding the table display (i.e., the columns can be displayed incrementally without waiting for the entire contents of the table).

Attributes

align=left|right|center

Specifies the alignment of text in the cells of a column group.

char= character

Specifies a character along which the cell contents will be aligned. The default character is a decimal point (language-appropriate).

charoff= length

Specifies the distance to the first alignment character (char) on each line. If a line doesn’t use an alignment character, it should be horizontally shifted to end at the alignment position.

span= number

Specifies the number of columns in a column group. If span is not specified, the default is 1.

valign=top|middle|bottom|baseline

Specifies the vertical alignment of text in the cells of a column group.

width= pixels, percentage, n *

Specifies a default width for each column in ...

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