TH table header cell HTML 4.01 Strict

Purpose

table header cell

Description

This element is a table header cell. It is contained in a table row (TR) which is contained in a TABLE.

Start tag

Required <TH>

Attributes

Name	Type	Default	Comment
abbr	CDATA	#IMPLIED	text; abbreviation for header cell
align	( left \| center \| right \| justify \| char )	#IMPLIED	horizontal alignment of cell contents
axis	CDATA	#IMPLIED	comma-separated list of related headers
char	CDATA	#IMPLIED	a single character from ISO10646 (see RFC1815); alignment char, e.g. char=':'
charoff	CDATA	#IMPLIED	nn for pixels or nn% for percentage length; offset for alignment char; horizontal alignment in cells
class	CDATA	#IMPLIED	space-separated list of classes
colspan	NUMBER	1	number of cols spanned by cell
dir	( ltr \| rtl )	#IMPLIED	direction for weak/neutral text
headers	IDREFS	#IMPLIED	list of id's for header cells
id	ID	#IMPLIED	document-wide unique id
lang	NAME	#IMPLIED	language code as RFC1766; language code
onclick	CDATA	#IMPLIED	script expression; a pointer button was clicked
ondblclick	CDATA	#IMPLIED	script expression; a pointer button was double clicked
onkeydown	CDATA	#IMPLIED	script expression; a key was pressed down
onkeypress	CDATA	#IMPLIED	script expression; a key was pressed and released
onkeyup	CDATA	#IMPLIED	script expression; a key was released
onmousedown	CDATA	#IMPLIED	script expression; a pointer button was pressed down
onmousemove	CDATA	#IMPLIED	script expression; a pointer was moved within
onmouseout	CDATA	#IMPLIED	script expression; a pointer was moved away
onmouseover	CDATA	#IMPLIED	script expression; a pointer was moved onto
onmouseup	CDATA	#IMPLIED	script expression; a pointer button was released
rowspan	NUMBER	1	number of rows spanned by cell
scope	( row \| col \| rowgroup \| colgroup )	#IMPLIED	scope covered by header cells
style	CDATA	#IMPLIED	style sheet data; associated style info
title	CDATA	#IMPLIED	text; advisory title
valign	( top \| middle \| bottom \| baseline )	#IMPLIED	vertical alignment in cells

Content

( P | H1 | H2 | H3 | H4 | H5 | H6 | UL | OL | PRE | DL | DIV | NOSCRIPT | BLOCKQUOTE | FORM | HR | TABLE | FIELDSET | ADDRESS | #PCDATA | TT | I | B | BIG | SMALL | EM | STRONG | DFN | CODE | SAMP | KBD | VAR | CITE | ABBR | ACRONYM | A | IMG | OBJECT | BR | SCRIPT | MAP | Q | SUB | SUP | SPAN | BDO | INPUT | SELECT | TEXTAREA | LABEL | BUTTON )*

End tag

Optional </TH>

Referenced in

Example

Source

Appearance

<TABLE Border="3" Cellpadding="6" Cellspacing="1" Align="center">
<CAPTION>The XHTML Playoffs</CAPTION>
<TR> <TH>Game</TH> <TH>Entities</TH> <TH>Elements</TH> </TR>
<TR> <TD>1</TD> <TD>3</TD> <TD>2</TD> </TR>
<TR> <TD>2</TD> <TD>4</TD> <TD>1</TD> </TR>
<TR> <TD>3</TD> <TD>0</TD> <TD>8</TD> </TR>
<TR> <TD>4</TD> <TD>8</TD> <TD>7</TD> </TR>
<TR> <TD>5</TD> <TD>2</TD> <TD>1</TD> </TR>
</TABLE>
<P>
<TABLE border="1" Align="center">
<CAPTION align="bottom">Weekly Schedule</CAPTION>
<TR><TH rowspan="2">Tasks</TH>
<TH colspan="7">Days of the Week</TH></TR>
<TR> <TH>Mon</TH> <TH>Tue</TH> <TH>Wed</TH> <TH>Thu</TH> <TH>Fri</TH> <TH>Sat</TH> <TH>Sun</TH> </TR>
<TR> <TH>School</TH> <TD> </TD> <TD>CS111</TD> <TD> </TD> <TD>CS111</TD> <TD> </TD> <TD colspan="2" rowspan="2">Off</TD> </TR>
<TR> <TH>Work</TH> <TD colspan="2">december.com</TD> <TD colspan="3">Weekend Prep</TD> </TR>
</TABLE>

The XHTML Playoffs
Game	Entities	Elements
1	3	2
2	4	1
3	0	8
4	8	7
5	2	1

Weekly Schedule
Tasks	Days of the Week
Tasks	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun
School		CS111		CS111		Off
Work	december.com		Weekend Prep			Off