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<td>
The <td> element represents a data cell in a table.
HTML Attributes
colspan
= valid non-negative integer
This attribute gives the number of columns respectively that the cell is to span. [Example B]rowspan
= valid non-negative integer
This attribute gives the number of rows respectively that the cell is to span.headers
= unordered set of unique space-separated tokens
The value of this attribute must have the value of an id attribute of the th element that is targeted. [Example C]
See also global attributes.
Examples
Example A
[try it]
<table> <caption> <p>table 1. Sample table</p> </caption> <tr> <td>1</td> <td>2</td> </tr> <tr> <td>3</td> <td>4</td> </tr> </table>
Example B
[try it]:
<table> <caption> <p>table 1. Sample table</p> </caption> <tr> <td>1</td> <td>2</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2">3</td> </tr> </table>
Example C
Use case of the headers attribute [try it]:
<table> <caption> <p>table 1. List of HTML elements</p> </caption> <thead> <tr> <th id="c1">Number</th> <th id="c2">element</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td headers="c1">4.1.1</td> <td headers="c2">html</td> </tr> <tr> <td headers="c1">4.2.1</td> <td headers="c2">head</td> </tr> </tbody> </table>
HTML Reference
The HTML5 specification defines the <td> element in 4.9.9 The td element.