World of HTML Tables
Explore how HTML5 tables are designed specifically for presenting tabular data, moving away from outdated layout techniques. Understand the use of table, tr, and td tags, and why CSS3 styling is the preferred way to structure web page layouts. This lesson helps you recognize best practices for creating semantic and flexible table structures in web development.
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HTML5 has versatile support for tabular data. The markup language always treated tables as first-class citizens when rendering content, but for a long time, tables had been considered by web designers mainly as tools for establishing the layout of a web page.
For example, a page with a standard header, footer, navigation bar, and content pane (as shown in the image below) was defined with tables, as shown in the Listing ...