Knowing how tables work will help you achieve a greater level of control over your pages. Before going on, it needs to be understood that it is impossible to have complete control over how a user sees your web pages. With the vast array of web browsers and user settings that will be used to view your pages, no guarantee exists that your pages will be displayed as you expected. However, tables are well-established and widely supported, even as early as Netscape 1.1. With that of the way, let's dig in.
Tables consist of at least one row and one cell.
This is a perfectly good table and can be used to split the web page into two columns. By default, tables are assumed to have no border. Now, it's important to understand how tables behave. Basically, a table will be as flexible as you let it be. In the previous examples, we didn't give the table any instructions on how tall or wide to make the table, or where to put anything within it.