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Similar to an HTML form, you start out creating an HTML table by using the <table> element. It has an opening and closing tag, and it wraps all the table rows and table cells inside of it.
HTML Elements
- <table> - The table element represents data in a series of rows and columns. Tables should only be used for displaying tabular data, and never for page layout.
- <tr> - The table row element defines a row of cells in a table. Table rows can be filled with table cells and table header cells.
- <td> - The table cell element contains data and represents a single table cell. Each table cell should be inside a table row.
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Similar to an HTML form, you start out
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creating an HTML table by using the table
element.
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It has an opening and closing tag, and it
wraps
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all the table rows and table cells, inside
of it.
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We'll get to those in just a minute, but
first, let's create a table element.
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So, here I'm in my workspace and I have
some starter HTML code,
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and I'm going to type table, and when I
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close that tag, you'll see that the
closing table tag is typed out for me.
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You'll also notice, that I have not typed
any attributes.
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That's because tables have no attributes,
other than the global attributes.
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If you've ever worked with tables before,
you
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may have used some attributes in the past.
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However, they are all now deprecated.
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If we open up another tab.
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We can type in MDN, or Mozilla Developer
Network.
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And then we can type in table, and that
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will bring us to the page for an HTML
table.
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And if we scroll through the
documentation, for the HTML table
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element, you'll notice that each one of
these attributes has a
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thumbs down next to it, and it says this
deprecated API,
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should no longer be used, but it will
probably still work.
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So border, cellpadding, cellspacing,
frame, rules, summary, and all
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of the rest of the attributes have been
deprecated.
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So when you type a table element, it
should look just like that.
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Now, let's type a table row, tables are
made
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up of rows of information, that go across
the page.
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However, there is no table column element
that goes up and down.
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In other words, columns are implicit and
are simply
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emergent from how many table cells, are
inside each row.
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So, let's hit enter, and make some space
and we'll type a tr element for table
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row, and when we close it, the closing tag
will be typed out for us.
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Now inside of that, we can type table
cells.
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And the table cells, contain our data.
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There shouldn't be any content outside of
a
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table cell, such as inside a row, for
example.
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So, we wouldn't type content here, rather,
we want to type a table
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cell, which is a TD tag, and then we can
type our content inside.
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So now, let's type some content for our
table cells.
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So, I'm going to type the word name, and
I'm going to select this line,
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and copy it to my clipboard, and then I'll
paste it two more times,
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and I'll type email, and finally, I'll
type job role.
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So, here we've created one table row, with
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three table cells inside of it, going
across.
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So let's save that out, and click the
Preview
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button in Work spaces, to see what this
looks like.
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Here we have our table row, with three
cells going across.
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Let's type out the rest of the table, I'm
going to make some room to work here,
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and I'm just going to copy this entire
table row with
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its cells, and paste it and then I'll
replace this information.
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So, here we're actually going down the
table, so I'll type, Nick
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Pettit cuz that's my name, and then I'll
just type an example E-mail address,
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Nick@example.com, and then I'll type a job
role, Web Designer.
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So, if we save that, go back to our
preview, and refresh, you can see that
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we now have another row and it lines up
with each one of the columns.
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So, here's Name, E-mail, and Job role.
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Let's create a few more table rows,
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by copying and pasting.
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So I'll create three more rows here, and
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then I'll replace the information with
some dummy data.
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So, I'll type in Andrew Chakley, and we'll
say andrew@example.com,
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and, we'll say he's a Front-End Developer.
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[SOUND] We'll type in Dave McFarland,
we'll say Dave@example.com.
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And we'll say he's also a front end
developer.
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And then finally, we'll type in Guil.
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[BLANK_AUDIO]
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And we'll keep that as Web Designer.
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So let's save that, go back and refresh.
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And now, you can see, we have this nice
table, and it's populated with data.
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