HTML & XHTML Pocket Reference, 4th Edition

Name

td — HTML 4.01 | HTML5

Synopsis

<td> . . . </td>

Defines a table data cell. A table cell may contain any content, including another table.

Start/End Tags

HTML: Required/Optional; XHTML: Required/Required

Attributes

Core, Internationalization, Events, HTML5 Global Attributes

abbr="text"

Not in HTML5. Provides an abbreviated form of the cell’s content.

align="left|right|center|justify|char"

Not in HTML5. Specifies the horizontal alignment of text in a cell or cells. The default value is left.

axis="text"

Not in HTML5. Places a cell into a conceptual category, which could then be used to organize or search the table in different ways.

background="URL"

Nonstandard. Specifies a graphic image to be used as a tile within the cell. Style sheets should be used to position images in the background of table cells.

bgcolor="#rrggbb" or "color name"

Deprecated. Not in HTML5. Specifies a color to be used in the table cell. A cell’s background color overrides colors specified at the row or table levels.

char="character"

Not in HTML5. Specifies a character along which the cell contents will be aligned when align is set to char. The default character is a decimal point (language-appropriate). This attribute is generally not supported by current browsers.

charoff="length"

Not in HTML5. Specifies the offset distance to the first alignment character on each line. If a line doesn’t use an alignment character, it should be horizontally shifted to end at the alignment position. This attribute is generally not supported ...