This tag is used to specify the group of one or more columns in a table for formatting. It is useful for applying styles to entire columns, instead of repeating the styles for each column, and for each row. Use the <col> tag within the <colgroup> tag to define different properties to a column within a <colgroup>. Most of the attributes in HTML 4.01 <colgroup> are not supported in HTML5.
Syntax:
<colgroup> Column lists... </colgroup>
Attributes:
- align: It is used to align the text or content in the group of columns. The value of the aligned property is left, right, center, justify, char.
- char: It is used to align the character in a column group and the value of these attributes is the character.
- charoff: It is used to sets the number of characters that will be aligned from the character specified by the char attribute. The value of these attributes is in numeric form.
- span: It is used to specify the number of columns that have colgroup tag. The values are in numeric form.
- valign: It specifies the vertical alignment of content in a colgroup. It’s values are the top, middle, bottom, baseline.
- width: It defines the width of a column group. It’s values are pixels, %, relative_length.
Example: The below example explains the HTML colgroup tag.
html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<h1>GeeksforGeeks</h1>
<h2>HTML colgroup tag</h2>
<table>
<colgroup>
<col span="2" style="background-color: green; color: white" />
<col style="background-color: tomato" />
</colgroup>
<tr>
<th>STUDENT</th>
<th>COURSE</th>
<th>AGE</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Manas Chhabra</td>
<td>BCA</td>
<td>19</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Anurag Gupta</td>
<td>B.TECH</td>
<td>23</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
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Output:
Supported Browsers:
- Google Chrome 1
- Edge 12
- Internet Explorer
- Firefox 1
- Opera
- Safari
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Last Updated :
21 Jul, 2022
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