Practice 5: Tables and Frames


Tables

HTML offers an easy way to organize information, or even design the flow of your entire page. The TABLE command involves a series of nested tags that control the rows, columns and cells that make up a table.

Example 1

In this example, we made a simple table to display information.

The Inner Planets

 
Year length Day length
Mercury 88 days 59 days
     
Venus 225 days 243 days
Earth 365 days 24 hours
Mars 687 days 24.6 hours

Example 2

Conference Schedule
Convention Office and Press Room 8:00 am to 6:00 pm
Registration 8:00 am to 6:00 pm
Professional Placement Service 8:00 am to 6:00 pm
Panel Paper Room Sales 9:30 am to 5:30 pm
Exhibits 9:30 am to 5:30 pm
Child Care 8:30 am to 10:00 pm

Example 3

Here, we use a table as the navigation bar for a web page.

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Using the method above, you can go one step further, and use a table as the framework for your entire page.


Frames


Frames are often useful, but many times also a problem. They are not easily dealt with in formatting, and they are out of style and not coming back.

To add to all of this, they are impossible to make ADA compatible.