HTML Tables

In order to learn about HTML tables, we will be constructing a newsletter. In the process, we will be making use of the most common table tags and attributes. We will be creating the newsletter by first creating one table (the pink one) and then nesting it inside of one cell of another table (white).

It's a good idea to plan your table before you build it. Our layout specifies not only the contents of the individual cells, but also their widths pixels.

Note that CSS is generally used for composing new sites' pages, but there are still numerous pages that use this method for composing layouts - and you may very well be asked to make a minor fix to one. Nesting is also used for CSS, but in a somewhat different manner.