Building Tables Basics

If you have built simple pages your likely ready to begin adding more complex designs to your pages. You are realizing that HTML is limited in what and where you can place text and images in your page.

To help with that problem we use tables which divide the page or area into sections. Then buy building smaller pages within those sections gives your page a more complex look.

For example, a basic page would have an image with text below or on top of that image.

However, you might want the text to be on one side of the image. To do this we create a simple table with 2 sections. Then insert the image in one section and the text in the other.

This is a picture of a friendly doctor, not the kind that can fix your web page but a real doctor that can fix you when you are sick.

The sample uses a table with a border. The same table can be used with no border so the table is invisable but the page is divided into sections that you can build just like you do with the entire page.

This is a picture of a friendly doctor, not the kind that can fix your web page but a real doctor that can fix you when you are sick.

Tables can have any number of sections and you can have tables inside tables. This is how pages can be broken into hundreds of sections.

This is a picture of a friendly doctor, not the kind that can fix your web page but a real doctor that can fix you when you are sick. One of the things the doctor uses is his stethoscope. He uses it to listen to your heart to make sure you are still alive.

The same tables without any borders.

This is a picture of a friendly doctor, not the kind that can fix your web page but a real doctor that can fix you when you are sick. One of the things the doctor uses is his stethoscope. He uses it to listen to your heart to make sure you are still alive.

The more complex and the more sections your tables have the more difficult it becomes to understand. But creating simple tables is easy and it will allow you many more design options while building your pages.

You can learn more about tables here.