Basic Table Structure

Put simply, web tables are made up of cells (which is where the content goes), arranged into rows. The HTML table model is said to be “row primary” because rows are identified explicitly in the document structure, while columns are just implied. The following examples illustrate the basic structure of an HTML table.

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