(sung to the tune: 'I'm A Little Teapot) Table Tags
Basic Table Tags <<>table<>> I'm a little TABLE TAG short and sweet <<>tr<>> I'm a little TABLE ROW I go across the page <<>td<>>and I'm the little TABLE DATA cell that corrals your stuff This is the code that starts ALL TABLES, put yer stuff in there and don't steam or shout! <<>/td<>> I'm the little STOP DATA CELL don't forget me or I will go everywhere! <<>/tr<>> I'm the little STOP ROW tag, stop me now! then you can make another <<>/table<>>Now I'm done, this is my stop!
(sung to the tune: 'OhOh Little Sheila') Rowspan and Colspan Padding and Spacing
more Tags <<>colspan="#"<>>whoa a whoa little COLSPAN spans the number of <<>td<>> cells like a bridge left to right <<>rowspan="#"<>> whoa a whoa little ROWSPAN spans the number of <<>tr<>>table rows like a ladder up and down <<>table cellpadding="#"<>>whoa a whoa little cellPADDING you are the bubble-wrap around the contents of my <<>td<>> cell <<>table cellspacing="#"<>>whoa a whoa little cellSPACING you are the outer space of the <<>td<>> cells like a window lattice frame 'tween the panes of glass
(sung to the tune: Pretty Woman) Putting it Together
Little table, marching down the page   Little table, you make my stuff so neat   Little table, now YOU BEHAAAAVE!   Little Table! Example of basic table <<>table<>><<>tr<>><<>td<>><<>/td<>><<>/tr<>><<>/table<>> Example of table with colspan (horizontal) <<>table<>><<>tr<>><<>td colspan="#"<>><<>/td<>><<>/tr<>><<>/table<>> Example of table with rowspan (vertical) <<>table<>><<>tr<>><<>td rowspan="#"<>><<>/td<>><<>/tr<>><<>/table<>>
some tables with code used for them I can't think of a song for this one :-)
<<>table width="90%" border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"<>><<>tr<>><<>td align="center" valign="top"<>><<>/td<>><<>/tr<>><<>/table<>> COLSPAN 50% width 50% width <<>table bgcolor="#D3FCFF" border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="90%"<>> <<>tr<>><<>td colspan="2"<>>BLUE<<>/td<>><<>/tr<>><<>tr<>><<>td width="50%"<>>BLUE<<>/td<>><<>td bgcolor="#ffffff" width="50%"<>>WHITE<<>/td<>><<>/tr<>><<>tr<>><<>td colspan="2" bgcolor="#ffffff"<>>WHITE<<>/td<>><<>/tr<>><<>/table<>> ROWSPAN 2 ROW 1 ROW 2 <<>table<>><<>tr<>><<>td rowspan="2"<>>BLUE<<>/td<>><<>td<>>ROW 1<<>/td<>><<>/tr<>><<>tr<>><<>td<>>ROW 2<<>/td<>><<>/tr<>><<>/table<>> HORIZONTAL Alignment <<>--LEFTCENTERRIGHT--<>> VERTICAL Alignments TOP MIDDLE BOTTOM