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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: 

html




<!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 1 and above
  • Edge 12 and above
  • Firefox 1 and above
  • Internet Explorer
  • Safari
  • Opera

Last Updated : 01 Aug, 2022
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