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Sina Maleki
6,135 Points<th> and scope attribute benefit
As all you've seen, after adding <th> with scope attribute in a code there is no change in preview, what is the benefits of using this tag in our table? Cheers,
3 Answers
sizwengubane
15,244 PointsHello. the <th> tag creates a table header cell element. The text inside <th> elements are bold and centered by default, but the text inside <td> elements are regular and left aligned. ** <th> element is used only for the headings of the table so that people can identify what is the heading and what is the content ** The scope attribute identifies whether a cell is a header for a column, row, or group of columns or rows.
These may not bring up any visual changes but when search engines crawl through ur website it helps them to identify what is the header and what is the content. and also this helps people using screen readers Mark my answer as the best if i managed to help u
Emmanuel Molina
9,268 PointsDon't forget that with CSS you can target different tag to apply different styles. For example if you use td everywhere how do you put every header in bold ? If your headers are tagged with th it's easier.
JASON LEE
17,352 PointsIf you want to make the header in the top row bold, adding this to your .css seems to work
th[scope="col"] {
font-weight: bold;
}