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title: HTML: table, tr, td
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published_at: 2020-07-23 07:00:19 +0000
updated_at: 2026-03-04 20:14:53 +0000
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# HTML: table, tr, td
*Published: July 23, 2020*
*Views: 15570*
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## Transcript
all right let's take a look at html the html element for creating tables so there is a table tag that we can use so table and within a table tag we can create rows and columns so uh the way that we organize the table is in rows first and then we break up each row into columns so let's create our first table row so table row is a tr and inside of the tr instead of a table row we need columns and those are defined as tds or table data so we can say td so we want might say like this is column one and we might have another td like this is column two okay if we save this and refresh the page we'll see this is column one this is column two it's technically in a table but it's kind of hard to tell that it's in a table there so one thing we might do is set an attribute on the table called border and we can set that equal to one and that will give us like a little bit of structure around the border of the table now it's worth mentioning at the beginning of this that typically we are not using tables very much anymore when designing html unless it's really just like a table of data most commonly we're going to use divs and structure the data in inside of divs and then use css to style the table so these are these are less common it's a less common tool but it's important to know so we're going to use borders so that we can see where the border is for the table we have a tr in td for one row let's add another row here and in in the second row what if we just added a third column so we have column three right so if we refresh the page here we'll see this is column one this is column two and then we have column three over here but like this space it's kind of awkward because we have borders between all of the columns except for this space over here has a border but it it's kind of like completely filled in so one thing you can do is if the data for column two in this case should completely fill all of that space we might use something called call span or how many columns should this data span so let's see i'll make a new row and i'll say this is column two and three and we're going to use call span col span this is an attribute that we apply directly to the table data so this is the column and if we say this column span or the the column span for this table data is two then this column is going to span two columns or this table data will span two columns so for refresh you'll see this is column two and three and you'll notice that like this completely covers both columns two and column three so that's what call span does there is a similar tool for row span so if we wanted to like have have some table data span across two different rows we could do that generally your it's good practice it's not required but it's good practice to add headers to your table so right now we don't have any table headers we just have you know the data that's in the column um and yeah so in order to add headers we need a table row and that's just like a normal table row the same tr tag we're using for the headers but the difference is instead of td for table data we're going to use th for table header so we might just say column one as our table header and column two and column three and if we refresh the page we see column one column two column three these are uh left aligned or i'm sorry these are center aligned whereas the table data is going to be left aligned by default there are attributes for controlling alignment uh and controlling a few other things but again generally we're gonna style this stuff with um with css uh typically the data that's actually in the column is probably going to be uh just like some values like maybe you have like this is your order like order number one and then you might have some value for the order number like order number one thousand dollars right so if we refresh like this is the kind of thing that we might see another another good practice is to uh group columns together within a head and a body of the table so it turns out that like if you wanted to create your tables just like this with table rows and table or with all table rows and maybe having some table headers in some of the rows and table data and other rows that's totally cool and you can do that but there is a practice where you can use t head which is which means like table header so you can separate the rows that belong in the table header from the rows that belong in the table body so t body is going to be the table body so if we move these rows up into the table body that gives us some content that goes in the table body and the table looks exactly the same and you can style it you can style it all the same way but it's just a it's kind of like a good practice to organize by grouping together those similar um those similar columns all right awesome we're making good progress let's next head on to ordered lists and unordered lists and different kinds of lists so we have we have three i think three different kinds of lists you
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