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TablesTables in HTML were meant to be used to show tabular data, such as the list of useful attributes in the how - to make tables page or a pricelist or such. Anything with information that is logically presented in a row and column format. In actuality they have been heavily used for page formatting. This is supposed to be superceded with CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). My attempts to replace the use of tables for layout completely, have not yet been very successful Simple Navigation Bar tableView source to see how this was done...
Highlighting text using tablesView source to see how this was done...
I 'm sure you' ve seen articles, especially long feature articles in magazines and newspapers where important points, or catchy quotes are repeated next to, or in the midst of the main text.Often these are distinguished with larger letters, different font or decorative edges. This is one way to create a similar effect on webpages by using tables. Page with columns of textView source to see how this was done... Here can go top of page logo and name without being in a table, but when columns begin....
Bottom of page stuff like a copyright notice, a navigation bar table like above, or whatever. |
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