Advanced HTML tables may contain thead, tbody, and tfoot tags, along with a caption to give the data better structure. Other than that, there isn’t any difference from a basic table structure.
<table>
<caption>This is the caption</caption>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>First Number</th>
<th>Second Number</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td>2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>3</td>
<td>4</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>5</td>
<td>6</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<tfoot>
<tr>
<td>Total 9</td>
<td>Total 12</td>
</tr>
</tfoot>
</table>
Table Caption
The caption tag defines a table caption. It must be inserted immediately after the opening table tag. It will be centered above the table, but can be changed via CSS.
<table>
<caption>This is the caption</caption>
</table>
Table Header, Body, and Footer
The table can then have its data separated into groups using thead, tbody, and tfoot. Using all three isn’t necessary, but if you are using tbody, you should at least use a thead above it.
This alters nothing on the page in the browser, but makes the code easier to read and gives the data more context for the browser, search engines, etc.
Within the thead we place our header row and information using tr and th tags.
<thead>
<tr>
<th>First Number</th>
<th>Second Number</th>
</tr>
</thead>
Inside the tbody lives the main data set for our table. Just as in a basic table structure, the data sits in rows tr /tr containing columns td /td of information.
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td>2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>3</td>
<td>4</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>5</td>
<td>6</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
Finally, inside the tfoot portion of our advanced table structure, sits the table footer information row tr and data td.
<tfoot>
<tr>
<td>Total 9</td>
<td>Total 12</td>
</tr>
</tfoot>
thead, tbody, tfoot, and the caption to better structure the data.
colgroup tag and col tag.
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HTML NOTES:
- In our HTML section the term “tag” and “element” are often used interchangeably to refer to both the tag used to create a page element and the element created by the tag (
ptag =pelement = paragraph on the page) - HTML5 is not case sensitive; so
Pis the same asp,ÂH1is the same ash1 - Global attributes can be used with all HTML tags and are therefore not mentioned on every tag page
- To write clean, readable HTML code, it is best to use indentation whereas elements within elements are indented (tabbed or spaces) to create something that looks like a project outline
- The browser will automatically remove any extra spaces and lines in your HTML code when the page is displayed
- Double quotes or single quotes can be used around HTML attribute values, but when the attribute value itself contains one form of quote, it will be necessary to use the other around the attribute
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