A table is a grid of cells which may have visible or invisible borders to align text and images.
Tables offer the facility to lock the relative position of objects on a web page.
HTML code does not have a command equivalent to a TAB key, so you need to create a table to hold the text in place. For example a common everyday use of a table is a timetable, where the columns and rows represent the times and days. Another example of how tables can be used is the title at the top of this page. It is a three-row table, with the middle row split into four columns. The following is a simple table.