Web Programming with HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript

5.1 Introduction

In Chapter 4, we focused on different ways to organize a web page’s content. We discussed organizational elements that have clear physical manifestations—list and figure elements. We also discussed several organizational elements that are less clear-cut in terms of their physical manifestations—header, footer, nav, section, article, and so on. In this chapter, we present another organizational construct, but this construct is so popular and important that it merits an entire chapter. In this chapter, we discuss tables.

At its core, a table is a group of cells organized in a two-dimensional structure with rows and columns. Normally, we think of a table’s cells as holding data, but tables can also be used purely for presentation ...