This week’s assignment is to construct a simple nested table (a table inside a table) on your blog page. Incorporate an image and at least two lines of text. Hint: put a complete table inside a <td> (table data) tag.

It’s important to know how tables function because a lot of web pages rely on tables and div tags (a Cascading Style Sheet term, which we’ll go over Friday). Multimedia skills also require knowing how to properly place audio and video elements, troubleshoot problems, and modify code (HTML) to get things to work.

A helpful tool in table construction is to turn on the border in the initial table tag. In this case, the border is 1 pixel (border=”1″). Other table tags can be found here and a tutorial on tables can be found at w3schools.

<table width=”600″ border=”1″ >
<tr><td width=100%” colspan=”2″ >
<h1> Table division one spans two columns (divisions) </h1> </td>
</tr> <tr>
<td width=”50%”>
Table division two</td>
<td width=”50%” rowspan=”2″ background=”#CCCCCC”>
Table division three spans two rows </td>
</tr> <tr>
<td width=”50%”>
Table division four </td>
</tr>
</table>

Denver Post blogger Al Lewis has 114 comments on this blog posting about the idea of airlines charging overweight people for two seats. Should comments be moderated?