Lesson 10 - Tables continued...

Changing the look of your table
You can change the appearance of your table by making each cell a different colour or changing the border size and colour.

If you just type <table>, then by default the table will have no border. If you want to make your table stand out you can add a border by typing <table border="1">. This will make a thin border appear around your table, as you can see below:

To change the colour of the border, you use a similar code to changing background colour. Simply type <table border="1" bordercolor="red"> to make a table with a thin red border. You can either use hexadecimal codes or type in the names of common colours. It will look something like this:

Changing the colour of the table
Changing the colour of a table is very simple. When you start a table, you just need to say what colour you want the table to be. In this case, I want a light blue (CCCCFF)table, so I type <table border="1" bgcolor="CCCCFF">