Creating a Basic HTML Table

The price list in a bakery window is a grid. The names of the products run down one column, the prices run down the next, and each line across the card belongs to one product. A reader finds a price by moving along a line until it meets the right column. HTML builds the same kind of grid with a table: data arranged in rows (the lines across) and columns (the lines down).

Rows first, then cells

HTML builds a table one row at a time. Three elements are enough for a first table:

• <table> marks the whole table.
• <tr> ("table row") marks one row.
• `<td>