Last time we looked at the HTML Horizontal Rule.  In this lesson we will discuss HTML Tables: What is an HTML Table? Let me give you an example.

HTML Table Code	HTML Table Browser Results

  HTML Tables is a fairly large topic because of large number of options available.  Therefore, I’m only going to discuss the most common items that I think are most significant. Let’s take a closer look at the example above and define the tags used:

• TABLE – Table Definition. The example has a border="1" option which will display a border of the size shown.  Another alternative is to turn off the border by using border="0". 
• TR - Table Row definition.  Nested within the TABLE tags. 
• TH - Table Header definition.  Notice that the result is the text within the TH tags is bolded and centered.  Nested within the TR tags.
• TD – Table Cell definition. Nested within the TR tags.

To add a row to the above example:

HTML Table Code	HTML Table Browswer Results

  To add a column to the above example:

HTML Table Code
HTML Table Browswer Results

In summary: Tables allow you to insert tabular data into a webpage. In our next lesson, we will look at Anchors. Till Then…