In today’s webinar, we talked about tables in HTML. Tables are one of the most used tag sets in the language; commonly used for overall layout as well as small arrangements of text.

The basic set is very simple: starting the table, ending the table, with row and table cell tags in between. What’s challenging and interesting is handling the combination of rows and cells when needed, then the positioning of text, and finally the proper use of color in borders and backgrounds.

Nesting tables one inside another is the next level of complexity, but it’s done quite often in web pages. The challenge is not to use too many tables in a page because the browser has to read through all the code first before rendering. The difference may be in milliseconds of load time, but tables are in fact slower to load than unstructured text, so you must use them judiciously.

We had two handouts for this webinar that make good practice documents. You can download them from http://www.pcpowertips.com/webinar/20080312/index.html. The second handout has 11 examples of the different formatting you can apply to a table.

Enjoy!

Webinar Date: March 12, 2008

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