More about WEB PAGE
Anatomy of the <head>
Grouping content
- Understanding the need to group content
- Using the div Element
- Grouping content into lists
- Dealing with figures
Creating advanced tables
- Adding table headers cells
- Denoting the headings and the table body
- Creating irregular tables
- Applying borders to the table element
Form Handling
- The action attribute
- The method attribute
- Configuring the Data Encoding
- Controlling form completion
- Setting the name of the form
- Adding labels to a form
- Automatically focusing on an input element
- Disabling individual input elements
- Grouping form elements together
- Using the button element
Customizing the input element
- Using the input element for text input
- Setting values and using placeholders
- Using a data list
- Creating read-only and disabled text boxes
- Restrict data entry
Using input validation
The table element defines the border attribute. When you apply this attribute, it tells the browser you are using the table to represent tabular data, rather than to lay out other elements. Most browsers respond to the border attribute by drawing borders around the table and each individual cell.
Using the border attribute
<html>
<head>
<title>Example</title>
<meta name="author" content="Adam Freeman"/>
<meta name="description" content="A simple example"/>
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
</head>
<body>
<table border="1">
<caption>Results of the 2011 Fruit Survey</caption>
<colgroup id="colgroup1">
<col id="col1And2" span="2"/>
<col id="col3"/>
</colgroup>
<colgroup id="colgroup2" span="2"/>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Rank</th>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Color</th>
<th colspan="2">Size & Votes</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<th>Favorite:</th>
<td>Apples</td>
<td>Green</td>
<td>Medium</td>
<td>500</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>2nd Favorite:</th>
<td>Oranges</td>
<td>Orange</td>
<td>Large</td>
<td>450</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>3rd Favorite:</th>
<td>Pomegranate</td>
<td colspan="2" rowspan="2">
Pomegranates and cherries can both come in a range of colors
and sizes.
</td>
<td>203</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th rowspan="2">Joint 4th:</th>
<td>Cherries</td>
<td rowspan="2">75</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Pineapple</td>
<td>Brown</td>
<td>Very Large</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<tfoot>
<tr>
<th colspan="5">© 2011 Adam Freeman Fruit Data Enterprises</th>
</tr>
</tfoot>
</table>
</body>
</html>The value assigned to the border attribute must be 1 or the empty string (“”). This attribute doesn’t control the style of the border. You do that via CSS. You can see how Google Chrome responds to the presence of the border attribute below.