Table Formatting

You can control a significant amount of a table's formatting with 5 attributes to the <TABLE> tag:

• border
• width
• align
• cellspacing
• cellpadding

The structure of these attributes is as follows (if they are not exactly clear, they should become clear once we dig into examples):

<TABLE  border="pixels"  width="number or %"  align="align_value"
      cellspacing="pixels"  cellpadding="pixels">

        border = border thickness in pixels
        width = number of pixels wide or if (%), percentage of screen
        align = "left" or "center" or "right"
        cellspacing = pixels
        cellpadding = pixels

Instead of spending a lot of time gabbing about these attributes (and not making it much clearer than above), let's focus on learning them through the Student Blackboard....I think their purpose will become very clear!

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