Web Design in a Nutshell

Name

<col> — NN: 2, 3, 4 - MSIE: 2, 3, 4, 5 - HTML 4 - WebTV - Opera3

Synopsis

                     <col>
                  

Specifies properties for a column (or columns) within a column group (<colgroup>). Columns can share attributes (such as text alignment) without being part of a formal structural grouping.

Column groups and columns were introduced by Internet Explorer 3.0 and are now proposed by the HTML 4.0 Specification as a standard way to label table structure. They may also be useful in speeding the table display (i.e., the columns can be displayed incrementally without waiting for the entire contents of the table).

Attributes

align=left|right|center

Specifies alignment of text in the cells of a column.

char= character

Specifies a character along which the cell contents will be aligned. The default character is a decimal point (language-appropriate).

charoff= length

Specifies the distance to the first alignment character (char) on each line. If a line doesn’t use an alignment character, it should be horizontally shifted to end at the alignment position.

span= number

Specifies the number of columns “spanned” by the <col> element (which shares its attributes with all the columns it spans).

valign=top|middle|bottom|baseline

Specifies the vertical alignment of text in the cells of a column.

width= pixels, percentage, n *

Specifies the width (in pixels, percentage, or relative) of each column spanned by the <col> element. It overrides the width attribute of the containing <colgroup> element.