4. A walk through the Table DTD

The table document type definition provides the formal definition of the allowed syntax for html tables. The following is an annotated listing of the DTD. The complete listing appears at the end of this document.

Note that the TABLE element is a block-like element rather a character-level element. As such it is a peer of other HTML block- like elements such as paragraphs, lists and headers.

• 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