HTML table tag

Table in the HTML document. The <table> tag represents a table in an HTML document. <table> tag is a combination of table header (<th>), rows (<tr>) and tables cells (<td>).

A table is used to present data that has more than one dimension. The tag can be specified like <table></table> with the table elements in between the opening and closing tags.

The <table> tag can contain child elements are optionally a <caption> tag, followed by zero or more <colgroup> tags, <thead> tag, <tfoot> tag, <tbody> tags or one or more <tr> tags, <tfoot> tag, intermixed with one or more script-supporting elements tag.

Syntax -

<table>.... </table>

Attribute	Description	Values
Align	Specifies the table alignment according to the surrounding text.Not supported in HTML5	LeftCenterright
Bgcolor	Specifies the table background color.Not supported in HTML5	Rgb(x,x,x)#xxxxxxColorname
Border	Specifies the table being used for layout purpose or not	10
Cellpadding	Specifies space between the cell wall and cell content.Not supported in HTML5	Number/fixels
Cellspacing	Specifies the space between cells.Not supported in HTML5	Number/fixels
Frame	Specifies the outside borders parts that should be visible.Not supported in HTML5	VoidAboveBelowHsidesVsidesBoxBorder
Rules	Specifies the inside borders parts that should visible.Not supported in HTML5	NoneGroupsRowsColsAll
Sortable	Specifies table should be sortable	Sortable
Summary	Specifies the table content summary.Not supported in HTML5	Text
Width	Specifies table width.Not supported in HTML5	Pixels/5

Example -

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
	<head>
		<title> Table element example.. </title>
	</head>
	<body>
		<table>
	  		<thead>
				<tr>
					<th>Employee</th>
					<th>Salary</th>
				</tr>
	  		</thead>
	  		<tfoot>
				<tr>
					<td>Total</td>
					<td>$10000</td>
				</tr>
	  		</tfoot>
	  		<tbody>
				<tr>
					<td>Pawan</td>
					<td>$5000</td>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td>Srinivas</td>
					<td>$5000</td>
				</tr>
	  		</tbody>
		</table>
	</body>
</html>

Output -

Employee	Salary
Total	$10000
Pawan	$5000
Srinivas	$5000