Topic: Table columns

Ok, I'm new to HTML and this is probably a really easy problem, but anyway. I'm trying to make a table of one column and four rows but the HTML below puts it all in one row and four columns. I don't really understand the difference between <td> and <tr> which is probably where the problem is. Anyway the source code is below:

<table border="6" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<td><font face="verdana">col 1 line 1</font></td>
<td><font face="verdana">col 1 line 2</font></td>
<td><font face="verdana">col 1 line 3</font></td>
<td><font face="verdana">col 1 line 4</font></td>
</table>

edit: removed preformatting tags after realising it's preformatted anyway

(Edited by AlterEgo on 12-01-2004 22:27)

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I don't really understand the difference between <td> and <tr> which is probably where the problem is.

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Yes that's where the problem lies. You need to understand the difference.

<tr> ... </tr> specifies a row in a table.
<td> ... </td> speciifes an element (or column) in a row.

You have created a table with four column tags and since you have not specified a row tag, the browser assumes that all the column elements are in a single row.

The correct way to have coded this would be

<table border="6" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">

<tr>

<td><font face="verdana">col 1 line 1</font></td>

<td><font face="verdana">col 1 line 2</font></td>

<td><font face="verdana">col 1 line 3</font></td>

<td><font face="verdana">col 1 line 4</font></td>

</tr>

</table>

To create a table with four rows and one column use

<table border="6" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">

<tr><td><font face="verdana">col 1 line 1</font></td></tr>

<tr><td><font face="verdana">col 1 line 2</font></td></tr>

<tr><td><font face="verdana">col 1 line 3</font></td></tr>

<tr><td><font face="verdana">col 1 line 4</font></td></tr>

</table>

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