Chapter 8 - Table Markup

Question 1

tabular material

Answer 1

data arranged into rows and columns

Question 2

CSS Tables

Answer 2

nested divs provide the markup and CSS Table properties make them behave like rows and cells in the browser

Question 3

<table>...</table>

Answer 3

tabular content (rows and columns)

Question 4

<tr>...</tr>

Answer 4

table row

Question 5

<th>...</th>

Answer 5

table header

Question 6

<td>...</td>

Answer 6

table cell data

Question 7

spanning

Answer 7

the stretching of a cell to cover several rows or columns, allowing you to create complex table structures

Question 8

column spans

Answer 8

stretch a cell to the right to span over the subsequent columns

Question 9

row spans

Answer 9

work like column spans, but they cause the cell to span downward over several rows

Question 10

<caption>...</caption>

Answer 10

title or description to be displayed with the table

Question 11

<thead>...</thead>

Answer 11

table header row group

Question 12

<tbody>...</tbody>

Answer 12

table body row group

Question 13

<tfoot>...</tfoot>

Answer 13

table footer row group

Question 14

user agent

Answer 14

browser

Question 15

<colgroup>...</colgroup>

Answer 15

a semantically related group of columns

Question 16

<col></col>

…</col>

Answer 16

one column in a column group

Question 17

What are the parts (elements) of a basic HTML table?

Answer 17

The table itself (table), rows (tr), header cells (th), data cells (td), and an optional caption (caption).

Question 18

What elements can a table contain directly? (i.e., first-level children)?

Answer 18

The table element can directly contain tr, cpation, colgroup, thead, tbody, and tfoot elements.

Question 19

What elements can a tr contain?

Answer 19

The tr element can contain only some number of th and td elements.

Question 20

When would you use the col (column) element?

Answer 20

Use the col element if you wan tto include additional information about the structure of a table, to specify widths to speed up display, or to add certain style properties to a column of cells.