BackExercise 2.1



Using Center, Table, TR, TH, TD tags and the ColSpan attribute, write the HTML for a table which will be displayed as:

Saturday Sunday
Morning Afternoon Morning Afternoon
9.00 Enrol 2.00 Practical session 10.00 Review 2.00 Practical session
10.00 Introduction 5.00 Discussion 11.00 Further problems 4.00 End of course

Note:  There are two approaches to this — if you have time you might try both.  The above example uses a single table.  A second way using multiple tables produces output like this:

Saturday Sunday
Morning
9.00 Enrol
10.00 Introduction
Afternoon
2.00 Practical session
5.00 Discussion
Morning
10.00 Review
11.00 Further problems
Afternoon
2.00 Practical session
4.00 End of course

For multiple tables it may help to draw yourself a diagram before plunging into the HTML — or maybe just looking at the lines will make everything clear.  It may also help to work from the inside out.  Don't worry about all the lines — using CSS you can get rid of them.

The Center tag will centre the table, but it may also centre all the table elements — depending on your browser.  Don't worry about that: I'll talk about DocType in Session 5 which should make things clearer!

To see the HTML I used to produce these two tables, right-click on the page (probably Control Click on a Mac) and on the drop-down menu click View Source or View Page Source.


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