<COL> and <COL>

Description:

This tag defines the attributes for columns in a table.

Attributes:

align=alignment

Defines the horizontal alignment of the data within the cell.

CENTER	Center the text.
JUSTIFY	Justify the text within the cell.
LEFT	Align the text to the left.
RIGHT	Align the text to the right.

class=class

Indicates that the text is to be formatted using the specified class.

dir=direction

Indicates the direction (right or left) that the text is to be displayed. Useful for languages which display left to right.

event=JavaScript

When event occurs, execute the specified JavaScript.

id = "name"

You can give a text a name, which allows it to be referenced and changed in a script (dynamic HTML).

lang="lang"

Indicates the language of the text within the text.

span=n

Number of columns that will be spanned. The default is 1.

style="style"

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.

title="title"

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.

valign=n

Specifies the vertical alignment of the data within the cells.

BASELINE	First line of each element in the cell aligned with a baseline.
BOTTOM	Align elements with bottom of cell.
MIDDLE	Align to middle.
TOP	Align to the top.

width="n"

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,

Examples:

<table border="1" width="80%">
<col width=10%>
<col width=20%>
<col width=30%>
<col width=40%>
   <tr>
      <td>&nbsp;</td>
      <td>&nbsp;</td>
      <td>&nbsp;</td>
      <td>&nbsp;</td>
   </tr>
</table>

<table border="1" width="80%">
<col width=1*>
<col width=2*>
<col width=3*>
<col width=1*>
   <tr>
      <td>&nbsp;</td>
      <td>&nbsp;</td>
      <td>&nbsp;</td>
      <td>&nbsp;</td>
   </tr>
</table>