HTML <td> (Table Data) Tag

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Example

<table>
  <tr>
    <th>Heading</th>
    <th>Heading</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Table data</td>
    <td>Table data</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Foot data</td>
    <td>Foot data</td>
  </tr>
</table>

Meaning

The <td> element specifies a data cell in a table.

The element should occur within a table row <tr> element.

Notes:

Under the XHTML 1.0 specification, the closing </td> tag ceases to be optional.

Version: HTML 3.2, 4, 4.01, 5


Standard Syntax

<td>...</td>



Browser Support




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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> element also supports the Global Attributes in HTML.


Event Attributes

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




By Default CSS Value(s)

Most of the browsers will display the <td> element with the following by default value(s)

td {
  display: table-cell;
  vertical-align: inherit;
}



Related Tags:

<caption>, <col>, <colgroup>, <table>, <tbody>, <tfoot>, <th>, <thead> and <tr>
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