The <th> tag in HTML is used to set the header cell of a table. Two types of cells in the HTML table.
- Header Cell: It is used to hold the header information.
- Standard Cell: It is used to hold the body of data.
The working of both tags (<th> and <td>) are the same, but the text properties are different. In <th> text is bold and centered, and in <td> text is regular and left align by default.
Syntax:
<th> Contents... </th>
Attributes: There are many attributes supported by HTML5 are listed below:
- abbr: This attribute is used as an abbreviated version of the text content in a header cell.
- colspan: Number of columns a header cell should span.
- headers: Specifies one or more header cells a cell is related to.
- rowspan: Set the number of rows a header cell should span.
- scope: It is used to specify the score of header content.
Attributes: There are many attributes supported by HTML4.1 but removed from HTML5 are listed below:
- align: Set the alignment of the text content.
- axis: Categories 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 is in numeric form.
- height: Set the height of a header cell.
- 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>
<body>
<center>
<h1>GeeksforGeeks</h1>
<h2>th 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>
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Output:
Supported Browsers:
- Google Chrome 1 and above
- Edge 12 and above
- Firefox 1 and above
- Internet Explorer
- Safari
- Opera