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Example

A simple HTML table, with two rows and four table cells:

<table> <tr> <td>Cell A</td> <td>Cell B</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Cell C</td> <td>Cell D</td> </tr> </table> Try it Yourself »

More "Try it Yourself" examples below.

Definition and Usage

The <td> tag defines a standard data cell in an HTML table.

An HTML table has two kinds of cells:

• Header cells - contains header information (created with the <th> element)
• Data cells - contains data (created with the <td> element)

The text in <td> elements are regular and left-aligned by default.

The text in <th> elements are bold and centered by default.

Browser Support

Element
<td>	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

Attributes

Attribute	Value	Description
colspan	number	Specifies the number of columns a cell should span
headers	header_id	Specifies one or more header cells a cell is related to
rowspan	number	Sets the number of rows a cell should span

Global Attributes

The <td> tag also supports the Global Attributes in HTML.

Event Attributes

The <td> tag also supports the Event Attributes in HTML.

More Examples

Example

How to align content inside <td> (with CSS):

<table style="width:100%"> <tr> <th>Month</th> <th>Savings</th> </tr> <tr> <td>January</td> <td style="text-align:right">$100</td> </tr> <tr> <td>February</td> <td style="text-align:right">$80</td> </tr></table> Try it Yourself »

Example

How to add background-color to table cell (with CSS):

<table> <tr> <th>Month</th> <th>Savings</th> </tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FF0000">January</td> <td style="background-color:#00FF00">$100</td> </tr> </table> Try it Yourself »

Example

How to set the height of a table cell (with CSS):

<table> <tr> <th>Month</th> <th>Savings</th> </tr> <tr> <td style="height:100px">January</td> <td style="height:100px">$100</td> </tr></table> Try it Yourself »

Example

How to specify no word-wrapping in table cell (with CSS):

<table> <tr> <th>Poem</th> </tr> <tr> <td style="white-space:nowrap">Never increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to explain anything</td> </tr></table> Try it Yourself »

Example

How to vertical align content inside <td> (with CSS):

<table style="width:50%;"> <tr> <th>Month</th> <th>Savings</th> </tr> <tr style="height:100px"> <td style="vertical-align:bottom">January</td> <td style="vertical-align:bottom">$100</td> </tr></table> Try it Yourself »

Example

How to set the width of a table cell (with CSS):

<table style="width:100%"> <tr> <th>Month</th> <th>Savings</th> </tr> <tr> <td style="width:70%">January</td> <td style="width:30%">$100</td> </tr></table> Try it Yourself »

Example

How to create table headers:

<table> <tr> <th>Name</th> <th>Email</th> <th>Phone</th> </tr> <tr> <td>John Doe</td> <td>john.doe@example.com</td> <td>123-45-678</td> </tr></table> Try it Yourself »

Example

How to create a table with a caption:

<table> <caption>Monthly savings</caption> <tr> <th>Month</th> <th>Savings</th> </tr> <tr> <td>January</td> <td>$100</td> </tr> <tr> <td>February</td> <td>$80</td> </tr> </table> Try it Yourself »

Example

How to define table cells that span more than one row or one column:

<table> <tr> <th>Name</th> <th>Email</th> <th colspan="2">Phone</th> </tr> <tr> <td>John Doe</td> <td>john.doe@example.com</td> <td>123-45-678</td> <td>212-00-546</td> </tr></table> Try it Yourself »

Related Pages

HTML tutorial: HTML Tables

HTML DOM reference: TableData Object

CSS Tutorial: Styling Tables

Default CSS Settings

Most browsers will display the <td> element with the following default values:

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