HTML Tables: Tips and Pitfalls

When designing your page, put a border around the table so you can see what is going on inside the table. You can remove the border, if desired, after everything looks good.

If you are getting strange results, check that all your tags match up. (i.e. <TD> matches to a </TD>)

If you use a tag inside the <TD> or <TH> tag, it will only be active for that cell. You will have to reissue the tag for every cell where you want that effect

Likewise any tag active before the <TABLE> will not be active inside the table.

If you have a blank page in Netscape, you are missing the ending </TABLE> tag.

When you start embedding tables, get each table formatted on it's own before embedding the text table.