Tables, Rows and Columns

Tables are very important to be able to organize your information, especially pictures and numbers so that everything looks pretty.

CodeAcademy set up a website with shipping orders for me to use. I had to make columns referring to the Company doing the shipping, the Number of Items, and what needed to happen Next to finish the transaction.

To do this I learned about the <table> tag. The tag only works when you put in the correct guts, namely the <thead> table head, <tr> which designated a column, <th> and row content tags. Interestingly with tables, the first row has <th> for its content, while the next rows have <tr>. It works that way because those contents are all the column headers.

Rows run horizontally, columns run vertically. That was very hard to remember.

Next I would get to practise with another project.