Simple Table

The purpose of this exercise is to create a simple table with HTML and to help you gain an understanding of correct use of colspan and rowspan.

Tables has often been used (to the bane of contemporary web developers and the push of W3C Guidelines) for presentational layouts because of its simplicity, its cross-browser compatibility, the disincentive of all the extra CSS style rules associated with DIV-Based layouts, and the fact that web development software such as Dreamweaver provides a cumbersome representation of the facts for positioned elements.

Hopefully less and less web designers apply Table-Based Presentational Layouts but for some website proprietors happy with the status quo, a move to update standards can overwhelm them.

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