HTML Layout

Everywhere on the Web you will find pages that are formatted like newspaper pages using HTML columns.

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HTML Layout - Using Tables

One very common practice with HTML, is to use HTML tables to format the layout of an HTML page. A part of this page is formatted with two columns, like a newspaper page. As you can see on this page, there is a left column and a right column. This text is displayed in the left column.

An HTML <table> is used to divide a part of this Web page into two columns. The trick is to use a table without borders, and maybe a little extra cell-padding. No matter how much text you add to this page, it will stay inside its column borders.

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Same Layout - Color Added

One very common practice with HTML, is to use HTML tables to format the layout of an HTML page. A part of this page is formatted with two columns, like a newspaper page. As you can see at this page, there is a left column and a right column.

An HTML <table> is used to divide a part of this Web page into two columns. This text is displayed in the right column. The trick is to use a table without borders, and maybe a little extra cell-padding. No matter how much text you add to this page, it will stay inside its column borders.

 

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HTML Joke

Student: "How do you spell HTML?"