Table Tutor - Lesson 5

Now we're going to play around a little.. try a few things just to see what will happen.

Here's a little unordered list:

Ingredients for Apple Pie

• Apples
• Flour
• Sugar
• Cinnamon

That's all fine & dandy, but what if we want to put it over here...

Because we want it to be next to a picture of...     a pie!

Ingredients for Apple Pie Apples Flour Sugar Cinnamon

By golly we could use a table to do that!

When studying or building a table, it's always easier when the borders are turned on.

Ingredients for Apple Pie Apples Flour Sugar Cinnamon

Let's build this puppy one step at a time. It's really pretty simple!

Start with little Ed.

<TABLE BORDER=3>
<TR>
<TD>Ed</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>

Replace Ed with the unordered list.

<TABLE BORDER=3>
<TR>

<TD>
Ingredients for Apple Pie
<UL>
<LI>Apples
<LI>Flour
<LI>Sugar
<LI>Cinnamon
</UL>
</TD>

</TR>
</TABLE>

Remember, in the absence of other instructions, the table will make itself just big enough to contain the data. So in this instance, a size attribute is not really needed.

Next we'll expand the table the full width of the browser window.

<TABLE BORDER=3 WIDTH=100%>
<TR>

<TD>
Ingredients for Apple Pie
<UL>
<LI>Apples
<LI>Flour
<LI>Sugar
<LI>Cinnamon
</UL>
</TD>

</TR>
</TABLE>

Isn't this fun!

Now we need to make a second cell. We want the left cell to be a little smaller than the right one.

<TABLE BORDER=3 WIDTH=100%>
<TR>

<TD WIDTH=40%></TD>

<TD WIDTH=60%>
Ingredients for Apple Pie
<UL>
<LI>Apples
<LI>Flour
<LI>Sugar
<LI>Cinnamon
</UL>
</TD>

</TR>
</TABLE>

Now would be a good time to copy applepie.gif to your working folder.
Plug the image into the first cell.

<TABLE BORDER=3 WIDTH=100%>
<TR>

<TD WIDTH=40%><IMG SRC="applepie.gif" WIDTH=150 HEIGHT=138></TD>

<TD WIDTH=60%>
Ingredients for Apple Pie
<UL>
<LI>Apples
<LI>Flour
<LI>Sugar
<LI>Cinnamon
</UL>
</TD>

</TR>
</TABLE>

Ingredients for Apple Pie Apples Flour Sugar Cinnamon

All that's left is to align the pie image to the right side of the cell and turn off the border attribute.

<TABLE BORDER=0 WIDTH=100%>
<TR>

<TD WIDTH=40% ALIGN=RIGHT><IMG SRC="applepie.gif" WIDTH=150 HEIGHT=138></TD>

<TD WIDTH=60%>
Ingredients for Apple Pie
<UL>
<LI>Apples
<LI>Flour
<LI>Sugar
<LI>Cinnamon
</UL>
</TD>

</TR>
</TABLE>

Ingredients for Apple Pie Apples Flour Sugar Cinnamon

Bingo!