Tables are commonly used to precisely place text and graphics on Web pages.
Tables are also widely used to size the width of Web pages.
Creating complex tables with straight HTML code can be a little intimidating. If you have a complex table you are going to publish on your Web site, you might want to try first creating it in a word processor or a spreadsheet application, and then save the file as HTML from there. Microsoft Excel does a very good job of converting a spreadsheet to HTML code. In HTML, a row is defined as the horizontal element of the table, while a column is defined as the vertical element of the table. This tag is used to create a table.