Tables are used to organize data in rows and columns. Our first example (Fig. G.1) creates a table with six rows and two columns to display price information for fruit.
Figure G.1. XHTML table.
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Tables are defined with the table element (lines 1666). Lines 1618 specify the start tag for a table element that has several attributes. The border attribute specifies the table's border width in pixels. To create a table without a border, set border to "0". This example assigns attribute width the value "40%" to set the table's width to 40 percent of the browser's width. A developer can also set attribute width to a specified number of pixels. Try resizing the browser window to see how the width of the window affects the width of the table.
As its name implies, attribute summary (lines 1718) describes the table's contents. Speech devices use this attribute to make the table more accessible to users with visual impairments. The caption element (line 22) describes the table's content and helps textbased browsers interpret the table data. Text inside the tag is rendered above the table by most browsers. Attribute summary and element caption are two of the many XHTML features that make Web pages more accessible to users with disabilities.
A table has three distinct sectionshead, body and foot. The head section (or header cell) is defined with a thead element (lines 2631), which contains header information such as column names. Each tr element (lines 2730) defines an individual table row. The columns in the head section are defined with th elements. Most browsers center text formatted by th (table header column) elements and display them in bold. Table header elements are nested inside table row elements.
The foot section (lines 3540) is defined with a tfoot (table foot) element. The text placed in the footer commonly includes calculation results and footnotes. Like other sections, the foot section can contain table rows, and each row can contain columns.
The body section, or table body, contains the table's primary data. The table body (lines 4464) is defined in a tbody element. In the body, each tr element specifies one row. Data cells contain individual pieces of data and are defined with td (table data) elements within each row.
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Preface
Index
Introduction to Computers, the Internet and Visual C#
Introduction to the Visual C# 2005 Express Edition IDE
Introduction to C# Applications
Introduction to Classes and Objects
Control Statements: Part 1
Control Statements: Part 2
Methods: A Deeper Look
Arrays
Classes and Objects: A Deeper Look
Object-Oriented Programming: Inheritance
Polymorphism, Interfaces & Operator Overloading
Exception Handling
Graphical User Interface Concepts: Part 1
Graphical User Interface Concepts: Part 2
Multithreading
Strings, Characters and Regular Expressions
Graphics and Multimedia
Files and Streams
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Database, SQL and ADO.NET
ASP.NET 2.0, Web Forms and Web Controls
Web Services
Networking: Streams-Based Sockets and Datagrams
Searching and Sorting
Data Structures
Generics
Collections
Appendix A. Operator Precedence Chart
Appendix B. Number Systems
Appendix C. Using the Visual Studio 2005 Debugger
Appendix D. ASCII Character Set
Appendix E. Unicode®
Appendix F. Introduction to XHTML: Part 1
Appendix G. Introduction to XHTML: Part 2
Appendix H. HTML/XHTML Special Characters
Appendix I. HTML/XHTML Colors
Appendix J. ATM Case Study Code
Appendix K. UML 2: Additional Diagram Types
Appendix L. Simple Types
Index