HTML Element: <td>
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The
HTML <td> element indicates a table
cell (within a table row). They appear inside <tr> elements.
HTML tables contain two types of cells, i.e. header cells (<th> elements) and
standard cells (<td>
elements), and the two are by default formatted differently.
The
attributes it can take (in
addition to HTML
global attributes and HTML event attributes)
are:
|
Attribute
|
Description
|
More
|
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colspan
|
Number of columns a
table cell should span
|
Here
|
|
headers
|
One or more header
cells a cell is related to
|
Here
|
|
rowspan
|
Number of rows a table
cell should span
|
Here
|
It used to support the abbr, align,
axis, bgcolor, char,
charoff, height, nowrap,
scope, valign and width
attributes, but these are no longer supported by HTML 5.
To create or access such
an element in JavaScript
see here. The
corresponding HTML DOM
object supports standard
DOM properties and methods. The default style applicable to this element is
shown here.
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