This tag defines the attributes for columns in a table.
align=alignment |
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Defines the horizontal alignment of the data within
the cell.
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class=class |
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Indicates that the text is to be formatted using the specified class. |
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Indicates the direction (right or left) that the text is to be displayed. Useful for languages which display left to right. |
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event=JavaScript |
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| When event occurs, execute the specified JavaScript. | |||||||||
id = "name" |
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You can give a text a name, which allows it to be referenced and changed in a script (dynamic HTML). |
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span=n |
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Number of columns that will be spanned. The default is 1. |
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style="style" |
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Defines the style in which the text will be displayed. This overrides any style elements at an "outer" level, such as from the BODY or the Cascading Style Sheet. |
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title="title" |
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You can give a text a title if you want. This provides some additional information about the text. I'm not sure why you would want to do this, but you could. |
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valign=n |
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Specifies the vertical alignment of the data within
the cells.
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width="n" |
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Width of each column defined by the <COL> tag. Overrides any width specified in the <COLGROUP> tag. Width may be a number of pixels, percentage or relative value. A relative value is a number followed by an asterisk (*). The way this works is the columns are divided up according to the relative values. Note that relative values are not supported by Internet Explorer, |
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<table border="1" width="80%">
<col width=10%>
<col width=20%>
<col width=30%>
<col width=40%>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
</table>
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<table border="1" width="80%">
<col width=1*>
<col width=2*>
<col width=3*>
<col width=1*>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
</table>
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