We have deliberately listed the start and end tags in this pedestrian fashion to establish the importance we place on using closing tags, if only to enable you to understand each different section of the table in your script, both now and in the future. Closing tags are a part of the HTML 3.2 specification. If you studied the graphic at the start of this tutorial you will remember that it states that the Cardinal Rule is that tables are made up of rows not columns. Bearing this in mind we will now create a simple table with one row down and three cells across. They separate different sections of your script and make it more readable and understandable.
White space costs nothing and is worth a great deal.
Also, don't be worried if some of the lines of script appear a little short at the moment. That's fine because it is far better to have short structured lines rather than long lines that are not structured and are difficult to understand. If there is a lesson that you should learn from this tutorial it is that rows should be separately sectioned within your table script and to demonstrate this we will now create another simple table, this time with three rows down and three cells across. If you study the table script above you will see that it has been created in five distinct sections. These are the table start, the three distinct table rows and the table finish.