Saturday, November 15, 2008

HTML Layout

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


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

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.


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

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.


Examples

Dividing a part of an HTML page into table columns is very easy to do. To let you experiment with it, we have put together this simple example.


HTML Joke

Student: "How do you spell HTML?"

HTML Layout

PreviousNext


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


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

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.


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

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.


Examples

Dividing a part of an HTML page into table columns is very easy to do. To let you experiment with it, we have put together this simple example.


HTML Joke

Student: "How do you spell HTML?"

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