Questions Chapter 4

 

  1. What are the two kinds of tables you can place in a Web page?

 

  1. What are the advantages and disadvantages of a text table?

 

  1. What are the advantages and disadvantages of a graphical table?

 

  1. What is the difference between a proportional font and a fixed-width font?

 

  1. What type of font should you use in a text table?

 

  1. What tag can you use to create a text table?

 

  1. Name the purpose of the following tags in defining the structure of a table:

<TABLE>            

<TR>                       

<TD>                       

<TH>                       

 

  1. How do you determine the number of rows in a graphical table?

 

 

  1. How do you determine the number of columns in a graphical table?

 

 

  1. How does the <TH> tag differ from the <TD> tag?

 

  1. What HTML code would you enter to place the caption “Product Catalog” below a table? Where must this code be placed in relation to the <TABLE> and </TABLE> tags?

 

12.  What HTML code would you enter to create a table that has a 5-pixel-wide border with a 3-pixel border between table cells and 4 pixels between the cell text and the surrounding cell border?

 

13.  What HTML code would you enter to align text with the top of a table header cell?

 

14.  What HTML code would you enter to center all of the text within a given row?

 

  1. What HTML code would you enter to create two 2 x 2 tables, one nested inside the upper-left cell of the other?

 

  1. What HTML code inserts the comment “Nested table starts here”?

 

  1. What code would you enter to change the border color of your table to yellow?

 

  1. What code would you enter to use red for the light border color and blue for the dark border color?

 

  1. What code would you enter to display only the top border of your table?

 

  1. What code would you enter to create dividing lines around your table columns only?

 

21.  What are the two ways of expressing table width? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each?

 

22.  What HTML code would you enter to create a table that fills up half the width of the browser’s display area, regardless of the resolution of the user’s monitor?

 

23.  What HTML code would you enter to set the width of a cell to 60 pixels? Will this keep the cell from exceeding 60 pixels in width? Will this keep the cell from being less than 60 pixels wide? How would you guarantee that the cell width will be exactly 60 pixels?

 

24.  What HTML code would you enter to set the background color of your table to yellow?

 

25.  What HTML code would you enter to create a cell that spans three rows and two columns?