Workshop 20140301

This workshop was aimed at the grade 12 teachers.

It assumes that teachers know the basic HTML commands. Anyone who wants to makes use of this material should have completed at least exercises 1 to 3 from the Workshop 20130316 page

Exercise 1

Create a new HTML page using the notepad or notepad++ editor. Remember to define it as an HTML document and to specify the metadata and body sections of the document. Add a header.

Now use the table commands to add a standard table into the document. Make sure that your document has at least 3 rows and 3 columns.

Add text into the various cells in the table

Exercise 2

Use the border attribute and change the borders of the table that you generated in Exercise 1

Exercise 3

Use the color attribute and change the background color of the table that you generated in Exercise 2

Exercise 4

Insert a table into row 2 and column 2 of the table that you generated in Exercise 1

Exercise 5

Experiment with cellpadding and cellspacing in your existing table.

Exercise 6

Now use the colspan and rowspan attributes to merge some of the cells of the table that you created in exercise 1.

Exercise 7

Construct your own table with any features that you would like.