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RFC 1942

Network Working Group
Request for Comments: 1942
Category: Experimental

D. Raggett
W3C
May 1996

HTML Tables

Status of this Memo

This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community. This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Discussion and suggestions for improvement are requested. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.

Abstract

The HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is a simple markup language used to create hypertext documents that are portable from one platform to another. HTML documents are SGML documents with generic semantics that are appropriate for representing information from a wide range of applications. This specification extends HTML to support a wide variety of tables. The model is designed to work well with associated style sheets, but does not require them. It also supports rendering to braille, or speech, and exchange of tabular data with databases and spreadsheets. The HTML table model embodies certain aspects of the CALS table model, e.g. the ability to group table rows into thead, tbody and tfoot sections, plus the ability to specify cell alignment compactly for sets of cells according to the context.

Table of Contents

• 1. Recent Changes
• 2. A Brief Introduction to HTML Tables
• 3. Design Rationale
• 4. A walk through the Table DTD
  • 4.1. Common Attributes
  • 4.2. Horizontal and Vertical Alignment Attributes
  • 4.3. Inheritance Order
  • 4.4. Standard Units for Widths
  • 4.5. The TABLE element
  • 4.6. Table Captions
  • 4.7. The COLGROUP Element
  • 4.8. The COL Element
  • 4.9. Table Head, Foot and Body Elements
  • 4.10. Table Row (TR) elements
  • 4.11. Table Cells: TH and TD
• 5. Recommended Layout Algorithms
  • 5.1. Fixed Layout Algorithm
  • 5.2. Autolayout Algorithm
• 6. HTML Table DTD
• References
• Security Considerations
• Author's Address
• Original text document
• Complete HTML RFC (TAR, TGZ, or ZIP format)

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