Hour 11Using Tables to Organize and Lay Out Your Pages
One of the most powerful tools for creative web page design is the table, which allows you to arrange text and graphics into multiple columns and rows. This hour shows you how to build HTML tables you can use to control the spacing, layout, and appearance of tabular data in web pages you create. You’ll find that tables are not only useful for arranging information into rows and columns, but also useful for laying out images and text on your pages. I also explain how using tables for page layout isn’t always the best idea, along with clueing you in on an alternative approach. A table is an orderly arrangement of text and/or graphics into vertical columns and horizontal rows.
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