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Chapter 7 — Lists and Tables

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Illustration 22: A Definition List
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Tables

Using tables on a webpage is another great way to organize information. Tables should ONLY be
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used for data that needs to be displayed in a tabular format. Older HTML often used tables to
format pages and for general layout, this is not an appropriate use of tables.
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Simple tables are written using the <table>...</table> tag containing rows of
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<tr>...</tr> tags and columns of data using <td>...</td> tags.

The size of a table is determined with the number of rows and columns you create. Usually you
would want to define the same number of columns on each row. In the example below, we create
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a table with three rows and two columns.

<table>
<tr>
<td>Susan</td>
<td>Jones</td>
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