HTML Tables

<table> Tag is used to define Table in the Web Page. A table may contain one or multiple rows and a row may contain one or more columns. <tr> tag specifies the row and <td> tag specifies the column.

This is the basic format of a table -

<table border="1">
<th>
<td>1</td>
<td>John</td>
</th>
<tr>
<td>2</td>
<td>Smith</td>
</tr>
</table>     

Table Heading Tag <th> Tag

<th> tag is used to define heading in the table.

<table border="1">
<tr>
	<th>S.No.</th>
	<th>Name</th>
</th>
<tr>
	<td>1</td>
	<td>john</td>
</tr>
<tr>
	<td>2</td>
	<td>Smith</td>
</tr>
</table>

Attributes of Table

Align

With the help of align attribute, we can set the alignment of the Table.

<table align="center">
<th>
	<td>1</td>
	<td>2</td>
</th>
<tr>
	<td>Smith</td>
	<td>John</td>
</tr>
</table>     

border

This attribute is used to set table border.

<table border="2">
<th>
	<td>1</td>
	<td>2</td>
</th>
<tr>
	<td>Smith</td>
	<td>John</td>
</tr>
</table>     

cellpadding

cellpadding is used to provide space between cell content and cell borders.

<table border="1" cellpadding="6">
<th>
	<td>1</td>
	<td>2</td>
</th>
<tr>
	<td>John</td>
	<td>Smith</td>
</tr>
</table>     

cellspacing

cellspacing provides the width of the table borders.

<table border="1" cellspacing="6">
<th>
	<td>1</td>
	<td>2</td>
</th>
<tr>
	<td>John</td>
	<td>Smith</td>
</tr>
</table>