Showing posts with label CSS Styling Tables. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CSS Styling Tables. Show all posts

Thursday, August 16, 2012

CSS Styling Tables


The look of an HTML table can be greatly improved with CSS:

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Table Borders

To specify table borders in CSS, use the border property.

The example below specifies a black border for table, th, and td elements:

Example

table, th, td
{
border: 1px solid black;
}

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Notice that the table in the example above has double borders. This is because both the table and the th/td elements have separate borders.

To display a single border for the table, use the border-collapse property.

Collapse Borders

The border-collapse property sets whether the table borders are collapsed into a single border or separated:

Example

table
{
border-collapse:collapse;
}
table,th, td
{
border: 1px solid black;
}

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Table Width and Height

Width and height of a table is defined by the width and height properties.

The example below sets the width of the table to 100%, and the height of the th elements to 50px:

Example

table
{
width:100%;
}
th
{
height:50px;
}

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Table Text Alignment

The text in a table is aligned with the text-align and vertical-align properties.

The text-align property sets the horizontal alignment, like left, right, or center:

Example

td
{
text-align:right;
}

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The vertical-align property sets the vertical alignment, like top, bottom, or middle:

Example

td
{
height:50px;
vertical-align:bottom;
}

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Table Padding

To control the space between the border and content in a table, use the padding property on td and th elements:

Example

td
{
padding:15px;
}

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Table Color

The example below specifies the color of the borders, and the text and background color of th elements:

Example

table, td, th
{
border:1px solid green;
}
th
{
background-color:green;
color:white;
}

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More Examples

Make a fancy table
This example demonstrates how to create a fancy table.

Set the position of the table caption
This example demonstrates how to position the table caption.