HTML | <td> Tag

Last Updated : 17 Sep, 2019

The <td> tag is used to define a standard cell in an HTML table.

Syntax:

<td>........</td>

Types of cells:

Header cells: contains header information(<th>)
Standard cells: contains data(<td>)

The text in <th> elements are bold and centered for heading by default.
The text in <td> elements are regular and left-aligned for data by default.

Attributes: There are many attributes supported by HTML4.1 but removed from HTML5 are listed below:

abbr: This attribute is used as abbreviated version of the text content in a header cell.
align: Set the alignment the text content.
axis: Categorizes header cells.
bgcolor: Set the background color of a header cell.
char: Aligns the content in a header cell to a 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 are in numeric form.
colspan: Number of columns a header cell should span.
headers: Specifies multiple header cells a cell is related to.
height: Set the height of a header cell.
nowrap: It specifies that the content inside a header cell should not wrap.
rowspan: Set the number of rows a header cell should span.
scope: It is used to specify the score of header content.
sorted: It is used to sort the direction of a column.
valign: It is used to set the vertical alignment of text content.
width: It is used to set the width of a header cell

Example:

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html> 
    <head> 
        <title>td tag</title> 
        <style> 
            body { 
                text-align:center; 
            } 
            h1 { 
                color:green; 
            } 
            th { 
                color:blue; 
            } 
            table, tbody, td { 
                border: 1px solid black; 
                border-collapse: collapse; 
            } 
        </style> 
    </head> 
    <body> 
        <center> 
        <h1>GeeksforGeeks</h1> 
        <h2>td Tag</h2> 
        <table> 
            <thead> 
                <tr> 
                    <th>Name</th> 
                    <th>User Id</th> 
                </tr> 
            </thead> 
            <tbody> 
                <tr> 
                    <td>Shashank</td> 
                    <td>@shashankla</td> 
                </tr> 
                    <tr> 
                    <td>GeeksforGeeks</td> 
                    <td>@geeks</td> 
                </tr> 
            </tbody> 
        </table> 
        </center> 
    </body> 
</html>                                     

Output:

Supported Browsers: The browser supported by td tag are listed below

Google Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Safari
Opera

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