While you can make web pages using what you just learned, incorporating tables makes the layout of your information look better, and make more sense.

Where would you find them? Every single professional web site uses tables, as do many amateur ones. The files you have been reading to learn html at this site are created using tables! Click here to see this file, with the borders of the table made visible.

The basics of tables are quite simple, you only need to learn three tags. Getting your tables to look exactly how you want them, takes a little practise. So let's jump right in and get started!

You probably guessed the most important tags in creating you table already, the <table> and </table> tags. You put these at the beginning and end of the table. The other two tags we'll cover are <tr>...</tr> and <td>...</td>.

<tr> is what you put to mark the beginning of your table "row." It actually requires no more explanation than that.

<td> marks the beginning of a table "cell." The cell is what will actually contain your information. Put as many cells inside each row as you wish, but every row should have the same number of cells.