The following tutorial was modified from an excellent discussion on the mechanics
of HTML Tables coding, distributed by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications,
University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign.
Much of the information on the Internet is best presented as a table.
Consider the Periodic Table of Elements;
the elements could easily be described in prose,
but the Periodic Table is so much easier to understand!
Since tables are so new to HTML, the standard is still evolving and there may be some differences in the way the clients present a given table, but the current releases of the NCSA Mosaic(tm) clients, Netscape 1.1 and above, and all Microsoft Intenet Explorer all support tables. As development moves forward and the HTML tables standards become more clearly defined, clients will present tables more consistently. HTML 3.0 and then HTML 3.2 Draft Specification have defined additional features for tables and the table-enabled browsers will support the HTML 3.2 standard in the near future.