<TD>...</TD>

Description

DTD

<!ELEMENT TD  - O (%flow;)*            -- table data cell-->
<!ATTLIST TD                           -- data cell --
  %attrs;                              -- %coreattrs, %i18n, %events --
  abbr        %Text;         #IMPLIED  -- abbreviation for header cell --
  axis        CDATA          #IMPLIED  -- names groups of related headers--
  headers     IDREFS         #IMPLIED  -- list of id's for header cells --
  scope       %Scope;        #IMPLIED  -- scope covered by header cells --
  rowspan     NUMBER         1         -- number of rows spanned by cell --
  colspan     NUMBER         1         -- number of cols spanned by cell --
  %cellhalign;                         -- horizontal alignment in cells --
  %cellvalign;                         -- vertical alignment in cells --
  >

Attributes

Value	Description
center	The contents of table cells are centered.
char	This attribute defines that the contents of table cells must be centered around a certain character. Which character this is, is defined with the char attribute. If no char attribute is given, a default character is used. This is the character that is defined to represent the decimal point in the current language. In English this is the period ("."), in Dutch it is the comma (","). This value is not supported by the HTML 3.2 standard.
justify	The contents of table cells is evenly spread between the left and right border of a table cell. This is achieved by enlarging the space between each word on a line. This value is not supported by WebTV.
left	The contents of table cells are aligned to the left side.
right	The contents of table cells are aligned to the right side.

The axis attribute is used to give a category a name, and the contents of the cell is the value for that category. The next thing to do is give each category a unique id with the id attribute.

After categories have been defined you must tell which data cells belong to that category. You do this by using the headers attribute, which you give the id value of the category to which it belongs.

Note: At this moment, there's no defined way of requesting a query, or how to show the results of the query. You must supply the value as a list of values, separated by commas.

This attribute can be used in conjunction with the GRADCOLOR attribute, which sets the ending color for the background gradient.
See the page Using colors for a description on specifying colors.

When more than one occurrence of the character is present, the first occurrence is used.

This offset is added to the position where the character to center around is. The direction of the offset depends on the current direction of the text.

When the alignment character isn't present in the line, the text is shifted, so that the text ends at the offset.

The value "0" is a special value and means that this column spans from this column to the last column in the table.

Another use of this attribute is to tell the browser to which category the cell belongs. Categories are defined with the axis attribute.

The value of this attribute is a list of id values of header cells, separated by spaces.

The value "0" is a special value and means that this row spans from this row to the last row in the table.

Possible values of the scope attribute

Value	Description
COL	The cell contains header information for all the cells in the same column as this cell.
COLGROUP	The cell contains header information for all the cells in the same column group as this cell. Column groups are created with the COLGROUP and COL elements.
ROW	The cell contains header information for all the cells in the same row as this cell.
ROWGROUP	The cell contains header information for all the cells in the same row group as this cell. Row groups are created with the THEAD, TFOOT and TBODY elements.

This attribute is an equivalent of the headers attribute, but easier to use, specially for tables that don't have a complex structure.

Value	Description
baseline	The first line of the contents of the cell are aligned with a common baseline.
bottom	The text in each cell in the column is aligned at the bottom of the cell.
middle	The text is centered vertically in each cell.
top	The text in each cell is aligned at the top of the cell.

Examples

<TABLE width="100%" border> <TR> <TD align="right" valign="bottom" bgcolor="#ffdfdf" height="100"> <SPAN style="color: #000">This text is in the lower right corner of the cell</SPAN> </TD> <TD align="center" valign="middle" bgcolor="#dfdfff"> <SPAN style="color: #000">This text is centered in the cell</SPAN> </TD> <TD rowspan="2" width="15%" background="background.gif" bgcolor="#500000"> <FONT color="#ffff00">This cell spans 2 rows</FONT></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD colspan="2" align="center">This cell spans 2 columns</TD> </TR> </TABLE>

This text is in the lower right corner of the cell This text is centered in the cell This cell spans 2 rows This cell spans 2 columns