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What Is a "td" Tag/Element?

A "td" element is a special element that can only be used as a sub-element of a "tr" element. A "td" element defines a column in a row. Here are basic rules about "td" elements:

• "td" elements are special elements only valid inside "tr" elements.
• "td" elements can have text contents.
• "td" elements are flow elements - can have both block elements and inline elements.
• A "td" element will be displayed as a new cell in the row.

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1. What Is a "table" Tag/Element?
2. What Is a "tr" Tag/Element?
3. What Is a "td" Tag/Element?
4. What Are the Attributes of a "table" Element?
5. How To Create Table Borders?
6. How To Turn On Some Parts of Table Outer Borders?
7. How To Control White Spaces between Table Cells?
8. How To Control Padding Spaces within a Table Cell?
9. How To Control Table Widths?
10. What Happens If One Row Has Missing Columns?
11. How To Control Horizontal Alignment in Table Cells?
12. How To Control Vertical Alignment?
13. How To Add Column Headers to a Table?
14. What Is a "caption" Tag/Element?
15. How To Merge Cells in a Row?
16. How To Merge Cells in a Column?
17. How To Create Nested Tables?