colgroup

Form

<colgroup> ... </colgroup>

Attributes

attribute default description
id none specifies the unique ID
class none specifies the style sheet class
style none specifies the style sheet
span 1 specifies the number of columns in the group
bgcolor none specifies the background color
background none specifies the background image
align left specifies the horizontal alignment of cell contents
valign none specifies the vertical alignment of cell contents

Support

HTML 4.01 [STF], XHTML 1.0 [STF], XHTML 1.1
Microsoft (MSDN)
[IE3 or later][Firefox 1 or later][Safari 1 or later][Opera 6 or later][Netscape 6 or later]

Explanation

The colgroup tag groups cells of columns in a table. This tag is not supported by Safari 2.

Related Tags

col, table

Sample Code [Output]

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=shift_jis">
<title>Sample</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Sample</h1>
<table border="1">
<colgroup span="2" width="150"></colgroup>
<tr><th>Brand</th><th>Quantity</th><th>Amount</th></tr>
<tr><td>TUGARU</td><td>2</td><td>300 yen</td></tr>
<tr><td>FUJI</td><td>10</td><td>2500 yen</td></tr>
<tr><td>Total</td><td>12</td><td>2800 yen</td></tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>