Related Reading Defining Table Width & Height Creating Site Layout By Using Tables Adding Background Images Merging Table Cells Cellpadding & Cellspacing

Chances are that every single fancy website you’ve come across on the web uses a set of “tables” to construct its layout. Tables in HTML documents are the most important elements of the general layout (i.e. design). That is why, this lesson is one of the most important lessons of the first stage of your free online web design course.

Sidenote: With the adoptation of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and the <div> tag, using tables for construction website layout will soon become absolete. However, it is still useful to learn how to construct tables for presenting data.

Below Are The Subsections Of Lesson 1-05:

• Web Design Lesson 1-05-01
Building simple tables
• Web Design Lesson 1-05-02
Cellpadding & cellspacing
• Web Design Lesson 1-05-03
Defining table width & height
• Web Design Lesson 1-05-04
Merging table cells
• Web Design Lesson 1-05-05
Creating site layout by using tables

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We start off Lesson 1.05 of our free online web design course by learning how to build simple tables. Let’s go!

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