Below are examples of the difference effects you can achieve by creative use of syntax when formatting tables.
Note also that most formatting, especially background, fonts, table headers etc should not be done with CCS - Cascading Style Sheets.
September 2003 update
As part of Ackadia's overhaul I've revised the code be XHTML compatible. Technically tables are being called obsolete but I think it will be several years before that happens, if ever. I'll revisit table in the coming months when I cover style sheets
Important:
I've set the tables as transparent in my syles sheets and rather than do a work-around, or created an edited copy for this page alone I've used inline styles to replace the old HTML ones. Generally, this is a botch job (on purpose here) and I wholly recommend you learn CSS, but it gets the point over. To work it also requires another line adding to the header:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" /> ~~~ This must go in your <head>
style="background: white" instead of bgcolor="white" and
style="background-image: url(images/background.jpg)" instead of background="images/background.jpg"
September 1999 update
I've edited this page to call up the code for each table :-)
Jan 15 '99
I've just added examples of nested tables later - some nice effects are possible
if you're feeling creative.
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