Ed, Rick and Tom Let's get rid of Ed's friends for now. As you can see there are two ways to specify table width. Each style has its uses. Which style to use for what is unimportant now. We can also mess around with the height .
Some people are afraid of heights.
Not me, I'm afraid of widths. We can control where in the cell the data will appear. You probably already know, by the way, that the default value is the value that the browser assumes if you have not told it otherwise. We can also control where data will appear vertically in a cell. Ed Default is middle.