HTML Tables: Practical Uses for a Table

So now that you know everything about tables, when should you use them?

USE TABLES TO ORGANIZE DATA

Use tables to organize data into a spreadsheet format. There is even an add-in for Excel available from Mircosoft® that will convert spreadsheets into HTML tables.

USE TABLES TO ORGANIZE TEXT

Well you have already seen numerous pages with tables that you may not have been aware of. Let's go back and take a look at the main page for this class:

HTML <TABLE> & <FRAME> -Normal View
HTML <TABLE> & <FRAME> -Table Visible
HTML <TABLE> & <FRAME> -No Table

You can use a table to give text that newspaper feel.

USE TABLES TO ORGANIZE GRAPHICS

Here is an example of some graphics with and without a table, you can judge which one looks better.