The HTML Elements reference.

"colgroup" - html element

  • COLGROUP groups a set of 'col' elements.
  • It allows you to group several semantically related columns together.
  • Starttag <colgroup> is Required and endtag </colgroup> is Optional
  • Browsers that support the colgroup - element : Internet Explorer Mozilla Firefox Opera Google Chrome Apple Safari
Element "colgroup" example:
<html>
  <head>
    <title>thead, tbody and tfoot element example</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <table  border="8" cellspacing="5"
            cellpadding="5" align="center">
      <colgroup   >
        <col span="1" align="center" width="35" >
        <col span="1" align="left"   width="105" >
        <col span="2" align="right"  width="80" >
      </colgroup>
      <thead style="color:blue" >
        <tr><td>Amount</td><td>Description</td>
          <td>Unit Price</td><td>Price</td></tr>
      </thead>
      <tbody>
        <tr><td >2</td><td>Bread.</td>
          <td>4.0</td><td>8.00</td></tr>
        <tr><td >6</td><td>Beer.</td>
          <td>1.5</td><td>9.00</td></tr>
        <tr><td >1</td><td>Butter.</td>
          <td>3.0</td><td>3.00</td></tr>
      </tbody>
      <tfoot style="color:red" >
        <tr><td></td><td>Summary:</td>
          <td ></td><td >20.00</td></tr>
      </tfoot>
    </table>
  </body>
</html>


Attributes:
align (deprecated), char , charoff , class , dir , id , lang , span (Initial: 1), style , title , valign , width (deprecated)

Attribute "align" value(s): depend on which element left, center, right, justify or char
  • Specifies the horizontal alignment of its element with respect to the surrounding context. Specifies the alignment of data and the justification of text in a cell.
  • You should use styles (CSS) instead.
  • Differences in browser support for this attribute: Internet Explorer Mozilla Firefox Opera Google Chrome Apple Safari
Possible attribute, align, values for this element:
Attribute value description
left Left-flush data/Left-justify text. This is the default value for table data.
center Center data/Center-justify text. This is the default value for table headers.
right Right-flush data/Right-justify text.
justify Double-justify text.
char Align text around a specific character. If a user agent doesn't support character alignment, behavior in the presence of this value is unspecified.



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