- Table rows may be grouped into a head group, a foot group and
several body groups
- For small tables, a set of rows form an informal body group
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columns may be grouped
- If none specified, just one column group
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sets of columns can be individually styled
- Table cells may either contain header or data information
- Entries in tables can be text, images, links or tables
- Cells may span multiple rows or multiple columns
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Aim is to display the table on the fly independent of page size
- For this reason information about table and column size appears at the top
of the table (table, col and colgroup)
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Not specifying column sizes causes the browser to adopt a 2-pass strategy in
laying out tables
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Captions behave like a cell that spans all the columns or all the rows
- The number of rows is equal to the number of tr elements
- See the
HTML standard for more information
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/appendix/notes.html#notes-tables
