I found once I learned how to do tables in HTML that I ended up using them ALOT!!...

It will help you with spacing in your pages because unfortunately
HTML isn't like a word processor and doing tabs..indents etc...is a PAIN!!!

One of the great advantages is your data
is much easier to read when structured properly on the page....

Atable can contain other things not just text....lists, forms images, links......

The only bad news is that you have to learn the structure of a table..and make sure it is coded in properly...

This is one of those times where you have to stare at the example...
till the lightbulb goes off in your head and you go....OK..I get it.....(honestly it will - if my lightbulb can go off so can yours)..
So here is an example of a two column two row table....
Notice how the table is enclosed in the TABLE tags...THEN each TABLE ROW (TR) encloses the table data....

JUST STARE AT TABLE FOR AWHILE....
You can add as many rows and columns as you like.....
This would make actually the most boring table in the world...
The background would be white ...the text plain....
Just like any other element...we have talked about...TABLES have ATTRIBUTES
To describe those attributes to you...I am going to use a beautiful table....Then underneath it...you will see the code for the table...that I used to design the table.....
TABLE ATTRIBUTES
ALIGN
ALIGN="LEFT"
ALIGN="CENTER"
ALIGN="RIGHT"
This specifies the horizontal alignment of the entire table,
TABLE WIDTH
 WIDTH="PERCENT"
This specifies the width across the screen you want to table to take up...this is 70%.
BORDER="#"
Specifies the border of the outside of the table..
Can be a value 1-50 for interesting affects- experiment.....
CELLPADDING="#"
Refers to the space between the cell border and cell data
 Experiment with values 1-10
CELLSPACING="#"
Specifies the border around each cell...
Experiment for interesting affects....
BGCOLOR="#RGB or COLOR"
Specifies the color of your table...
Self explanatory....

Now here is the code for the table...
Just because you might have an editor that inserts the code...it is still important to understand the codes so you can modify....or as in any coding in HTML...when you do have an error...you must know how to trouble shoot.....

I'm going to make another point for tables....You can set up tables with lots of cell spacing...
and what they end up looking like is a group of buttoned links
Then each cell can contain the Link name....each cell would also be a link...by putting a

A HREF=" "
code for each cell.....
Here is an example....Say you would like to share with your audience a group of midis you have collected....You could organize them as follows.....


MY MIDI COLLECTION
Hit on any of the buttons to hear the music...to save the file to your drive hit the left mouse buttonon the player....
AND I LOVE HER BABY ELEPHANT WALK
THEME FROM CHEERS CARRY THAT WEIGHT
EVERYBODY DANCE(C&C) JAMMIN'
GHOSTBUSTER'S THEME HERE COMES THE SUN
LOONEYTUNE THEME SOCK HOP MUSIC
TWIN PEAKS MIDI UNDER THE SEA
X FILES THEME JAMMIN'
JAZZ ELEVATOR TIME WARP
COOL JAZZ FUR ELISE
DICK VAN DYKE THEME FAST CONT. JAZZ
FREAKY SCARY STUFF GROWN NAKED MAN..
HERE IS THE CODE...It looks worse than it is REALLY!!! JUST STARE at it and you'll notice it is all just repetitive coding...How I usually do them....Is do them row by row...I do the first row and then COPY PASTE COPY PASTE each row as I go along...modifying the reference codes and the links...
<TABLE WIDTH="75%" BORDER="10" BGCOLOR="#0099FF" CELLSPACING="11" CELLPADDING="5">

<TR>
<TD><A HREF="andilove.mid">AND I LOVE HER</A> </TD>

<TD>A HREF="bew.mid">BABY ELEPHANT WALK</A></TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
This is the first row...now you would just copy and repeat that tag over and over and then make sure you close of your table with a </TABLE> tag.....

So I hope I have by examples shown you the beauty of tables, and convinced you to take the time to learn the coding....
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