Th tag in HTML5
in this article I am going to describe about the Th tag in HTML5.
Th Tag in HTML5
<th> tag is used for defining the table headers of cells or columns in a table. The <th> tag is used within the <tr> tag and <tr> is nested in <table> tag. This tag must have opening and closing tags. Table header cell means its contain information about header.
An HTML table has two kinds of cells:
- Header cells - contains header information (created with the <th> element)
- Standard cells - contains data (created with <td> element)
The text in <th> elements are bold and centered by default.
The text in <td> elements are regular and left-aligned by default.
Browser Support
It is supported in all major browsers.
Syntax
<th>Column header</th>
Attributes
| Attribute |
Value |
Description |
| colspan |
number |
Specifies the number of columns a header cell should span |
| headers |
header_id |
Specifies one or more header cells a cell is related to |
| rowspan |
number |
Specifies the number of rows a header cell should span |
| scope |
col
colgroup
row
rowgroup
|
Specifies whether a header cell is a header for a column, row, or group of columns or rows |
Some HTML 4.01 attributes are not supported in HTML5.
Attributes not supported by HTML5 are
- abbr
- align
- axis
- bgcolor
- char
- charoff
- height
- nowrap
- valign
- width
Example of <th> tag in HTML5
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<title>Th tag in HTML5</title>
<table border="1">
<tr>
<th>Employee id</th>
<th>Employee Name</th>
<th>Salary</th>
<tr>
<td>10</td>
<td>Ashwani</td>
<td>10000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>11</td>
<td>Anubhav</td>
<td>12000</td>
</tr>
</table>
</head>
<body>
<p>Table Header Tag in HTML5</p>
</body>
</html>
Output
