What is a table?

• Objective: 

This lesson is meant to help you understand the purpose of tables when designing web pages.

•  Tables provide a way of laying out the web page so that it is easy to read from any computer. A table is a series of rows and columns that have a border or no border, background colors, and a variety of other features that help make a web page more readable.

  My experience says that it is easier to copy the basic code for a table from an existing page and modify the contents rather than to start from scratch with html code. After learning the different html codes for tables, I found myself making my own tables as my experience grew. You may find yourself doing the same. You will find these code and many more: 
  
  

  <table> and </table>

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  begins and ends a table

  <tr> and </tr>

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  begins and ends a table row

  <td> and </td>

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  begins and ends a table data cell

  <border=#>

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  determines the border size

 For this assignment visit the Schedule page and view the source code of the table on that page. The best way I have found to understand how the code works is to have both the web page open and the source code open at the same time. I look for places in the code where the words on the web page match the words in the code. It takes a while to get the hang of it, but in time you will be able to understand the code. Many of the tags are words that have a logical meaning as to what they do.

After you have tried understanding the html code of a table, take the short cut approach to making a table by going to the File menu and clicking on Save as. When  you do your Save as tack, make sure you save it in your web class folder on the school server. By saving it on the school server, you will be able to work on your file any where on campus.

Now that you have saved the file, view the source code again. On a sheet of paper make a list of the tags used in the table portion of the page. Once you have made the list, describe the purpose of as many of those tags as you can. For each tag that you are able to list and describe, points will be given.

Turn this assignment in to the teacher and begin the next assignment listed on the Web Class Page.