Chapter 17. Tables

In Chapter 8, you learned about all the formatting attributes available for table elements in your XHTML documents. It should come as no surprise that CSS has analogous properties to match each of the table element attributes. However, the various CSS properties do not apply to tables exactly like the element attributes. This chapter breaks down the CSS properties into their respective groups and shows you how to use them to format tables using CSS instead of tag attributes.

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