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1. what is xhtml
2. xhtml document basics
3. xhtml basics
4. xhtml special chars
5. xhtml attributes
6. xhtml hyperlinks
7. xhtml images
* 8. xhtml tables
a. xhtml table basics
b. xhtml table structure
c. xhtml table attributes
d. xhtml table spanning
e. layout with tables
f. css table styling
g. good table design
h. table design examples
9. xhtml forms
10. xhtml frames
11. xhtml meta content


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Tables

These tutorials are about XHTML, the Extensible Hypertext Markup Language.

This tutorial has seven (7) sub-sections.

Note that some of the examples in this lecture are using table formatting that does not normally carry over into print or that may be specific to only certain browsers. This means that certain examples will not appear correctly in many instances. This does not affect document readability.

Tables

Tables serve two primary functions in Web page design:

  • general display of tabular data
  • management of document layout

Tables were developed for the former, the general display of tabular data. This holds to the principle of using HTML to structure content. However, tables have quickly evolved into the primary layout tool for Web pages and are now most frequently used for the latter.

It is recommended that tables only be used for structuring content, but given the limitations of HTML, and the frequency of such application, there is no real problem with using them for layout, as long as you follow some simple rules for using tables for page layout which will be discussed further on.

This section looks at designing and tables forms in HTML.

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