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HTML HTML Tables HTML Tables

Cassandra James
Cassandra James
7,561 Points
Posted by Cassandra James
Cassandra James
7,561 Points

HTML Tables Code Challenge 8 of 8

Here is my code. <!-- Write your code below --> <table> <thead> <tr> <th>Fruits</th> <th>Vegetables</th> </tr> </thead>

  <tbody>
    <td>Kiwi</td>
    <td>Mustard Greens</td>

 </table>

</body> </html>

Challenge: I need to create another table row with a cell that spans two columns.

Does the code go In between the thead tags? YES or NO This is the code I tried <tr colspan="2"> </tr>

I am thinking it is the way this is worded that I am not getting.

Thanks.

Andrew Whitfield
Andrew Whitfield
5,239 Points

Hi,

There are a couple of things to consider.

<table>
    <thead></thead>
    <tfoot></tfoot>
    <tbody>
    <tr>
        <td> ... </td>
        <td> ... </td>
    </tr>
    </tbody>
</table>

In the above example, the table has 1 table row, with 2 table data tags.

If you wanted to add one row that spanned both columns you could insert:

<tr>
    <td colspan="2"> ... </td>
</tr>

before the closing </tbody> tag.

The code would not go in the <thead></thead> tags, though.

You may want to do similar things in thead and tfoot tags, however.

1 Answer

Cassandra James
Cassandra James
7,561 Points
Cassandra James
Cassandra James
7,561 Points

I got it. Thanks for your help. I found the wording to be confusing for some reason but here is what I did: In <tbody> I added: <tr> <td colspan="2"></td> </tr>