HTML <td> Tag - HTML Tag - Horje

Definition and Usage

The <td> tag defines a standard data cell in an HTML table.

An HTML table has two kinds of cells:

Header cells - contains header information (created with the <th> element)
Data cells - contains data (created with the <td> element)

The text in <td> elements are regular and left-aligned by default.

The text in <th> elements are bold and centered by default.

Browser Support

Attributes

Attribute	Value	Description
colspan	number	Specifies the number of columns a cell should span
headers	header_id	Specifies one or more header cells a cell is related to
rowspan	number	Sets the number of rows a cell should span

Global Attributes

The <td> tag also supports the Global Attributes in HTML.

Event Attributes

The <td> tag also supports the Event Attributes in HTML.

How to create HTML <td> Tag

It is a simple HTML table, with two rows and four table cells.

index.html

Example: HTML

 <table>
  <tr>
    <td>Cell A</td>
    <td>Cell B</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Cell C</td>
    <td>Cell D</td>
  </tr>
</table>

Output should be:

How to align content inside <td> (with CSS)

Right-align content in some data cells

index.html

Example: HTML

 <table style="width:100%">
  <tr>
    <th>Month</th>
    <th>Savings</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>January</td>
    <td style="text-align:right">$100</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>February</td>
    <td style="text-align:right">$80</td>
  </tr>
</table>

Output should be:

How to add background-color to table cell (with CSS)

Add Background Color to td

index.html

Example: HTML

 <table>
  <tr>
    <th>Month</th>
    <th>Savings</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td style="background-color:#FF0000">January</td>
    <td style="background-color:#00FF00">$100</td>
  </tr>
 </table>

Output should be:

How to set the height of a table cell (with CSS)

Add Specific Height to td

index.html

Example: HTML

 <table>
  <tr>
    <th>Month</th>
    <th>Savings</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td style="height:100px">January</td>
    <td style="height:100px">$100</td>
  </tr>
</table>

Output should be:

How to specify no word-wrapping in table cell (with CSS)

Add Nowrap to td

index.html

Example: HTML

 <table>
  <tr>
    <th>Poem</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td style="white-space:nowrap">Never increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to explain anything</td>
  </tr>
</table>

Output should be:

How to vertical align content inside <td> (with CSS)

Vertical-align content in td

index.html

Example: HTML

 <table style="width:50%;">
  <tr>
    <th>Month</th>
    <th>Savings</th>
  </tr>
  <tr style="height:100px">
    <td style="vertical-align:bottom">January</td>
    <td style="vertical-align:bottom">$100</td>
  </tr>
</table>

Output should be:

How to set the width of a table cell (with CSS)

Add a width i percent for tds

index.html

Example: HTML

 <table style="width:100%">
  <tr>
    <th>Month</th>
    <th>Savings</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td style="width:70%">January</td>
    <td style="width:30%">$100</td>
  </tr>
</table>

Output should be:

How to create table headers

Table Headers

Horizontal headers
Vertical headers

index.html

Example: HTML

 <table>
  <tr>
    <th>Name</th>
    <th>Email</th>
    <th>Phone</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>John Doe</td>
    <td>[email protected]</td>
    <td>123-45-678</td>
  </tr>
</table>

Output should be:

How to create a table with a caption

The caption element

index.html

Example: HTML

 <table>
  <caption>Monthly savings</caption>
  <tr>
    <th>Month</th>
    <th>Savings</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>January</td>
    <td>$100</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>February</td>
    <td>$80</td>
  </tr>
</table>

Output should be:

How to define table cells that span more than one row or one column on HTML <TD>

Colspan and rowspan

Cell that spans two columns
Cell that spans two rows

index.html

Example: HTML

 <table>
  <tr>
    <th>Name</th>
    <th>Email</th>
    <th colspan="2">Phone</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>John Doe</td>
    <td>[email protected]</td>
    <td>123-45-678</td>
    <td>212-00-546</td>
  </tr>
</table>

Output should be:

How to set Default CSS Settings on HTML <td>

Most browsers will display the <td> element with the following default values.

index.html

Example: HTML

<style>
td {
  display: table-cell;
  vertical-align: inherit;
}
</style>
 <table>
  <tr>
    <td>Cell A</td>
    <td>Cell B</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Cell C</td>
    <td>Cell D</td>
  </tr>
</table>

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