Advanced HTML For Beginners > HTML > HTML Tables Header Cell Tag

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This tag starts a header table cell. Like the <td> tag, it needs to be within both the <table> and <tr> tags.

Here is an example

<th bgcolor="#FFFFFF" align="center" valign="center" colspan="2" rowspan="2">

This is just like the <td> tag except for one thing, the default text inside this type of table cell is already centered and bolded.

Here are the attributes

• bgcolor - Sets the background color of the cell

• align - Sets the justification of the cell contents (see above for possible inputs)

• valign - Sets the vertical justification of the cell content (see above for possible inputs)

• colspan - Tables are meant to be grids, but this makes it so you can join cells horizontally

• rowspan - Distance of the cell walls from its contents

* = mandatory

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