Make a table in HTML

Here's how to make a basic table with HTML:

<table>
  <tr>
    <td>row 1 cell 1</td>
    <td>row 1 cell 2</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>row 2 cell 1</td>
    <td>row 2 cell 2</td>
  </tr>
</table>

It will look like this:

row 1 cell 1	row 1 cell 2
row 2 cell 1	row 2 cell 2

What's going on, here?

<table> </table> encloses the whole table.

<tr> </tr> defines a new row within the table.

<td> </td> defines a new column within a row.

Notice how columns are nested within rows, and all the rows are nested within a table.

How do I make borders in my table?

This is done within the first <table> tag using the border attribute.

It looks like this:

<table border="1">

This produces a table with a 1 pixel wide border around it. If you type 2 in place of the 1, it will be a 2 pixel wide border, etc.

How do I define the width of a table?

This is done within the first <table> tag using the width attribute.

It would look like this:

<table width="500">

This produces a table 500 pixels wide.

If you wanted a table to be 500 pixels wide with a 1pixel border, your opening <table> tag would look like this:

<table width="500" border="1">