tables

Question 1

Which tag will you use to define table header?

Answer 1

‹thead› is used to define table header.

And [th] for the actual headings

Question 2

How will you group columns in a table for formatting?

Answer 2

The ‹colgroup› tag can be used for the same. e.g.
‹table›
‹colgroup span="2" align="left"›‹/colgroup› ‹colgroup align="right"›‹/colgroup›
‹tr› ‹th›Id‹/th›
‹th›Name‹/th›
‹th›Location‹/th› ‹/tr›
‹tr›
‹td›1‹/td› ‹td›Ben‹/td›
‹td›Sydney‹/td› ‹/tr›
‹/table›

Question 3

Can ‹colgroup› be nested with other tags apart from table element?

Answer 3

No. The ‹colgroup› tag can only be used inside a table element.

Question 4

How will you create columns in a table?

Answer 4

To create columns, we must specify td elements within a tr element. e.g.‹tr›‹td›Col1‹/td›‹td›Col2‹/td›‹/tr›

Question 5

Name the tags with which tfoot tag should be used in conjunction with.

Answer 5

The tfoot element should be used in conjunction with the thead and tbody tags.

Question 6

Where will you place ‹tfoot› tag in your HTML page?

Answer 6

The ‹tfoot› tag must appear before ‹tbody› within a table, so that a browser can render the footer before receiving all the rows of data. e.g.
‹table border="1"›
‹thead›
‹tr› ‹th›Subject‹/th› ‹th›Marks‹/th› ‹/tr›
‹/thead›
‹tfoot›
‹tr› ‹td›Total‹/td›
‹td›150‹/td›
‹/tr› ‹/tfoot› ‹tbody›
‹tr› ‹td›English‹/td›
‹td›100‹/td› ‹/tr›
‹tr› ‹td›Maths‹/td›
‹td›50‹/td› ‹/tr›
‹/tbody› ‹/table›