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HTML5 <col> Tag

Example

Set the background color of the three columns with the <colgroup> and <col> tags:

<table border="1">
  <colgroup>
    <col span="2" style="background-color:red" />
    <col style="background-color:yellow" />
  </colgroup>
  <tr>
    <th>ISBN</th>
    <th>Title</th>
    <th>Price</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>3476896</td>
    <td>My first HTML</td>
    <td>$53</td>
  </tr>
</table>

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Browser Support

Internet Explorer Firefox Opera Google Chrome Safari

The <col> tag is supported in all major browsers.

Definition and Usage

The <col> tag specifies column properties for each column within a <colgroup> element.

The <col> tag is useful for applying styles to entire columns, instead of repeating the styles for each cell, for each row.

Differences Between HTML 4.01 and HTML5

Most of the attributes from 4.01 are not supported in HTML5.

Attributes

Attribute Value Description
align left
right
center
justify
char		 Not supported in HTML5
char character Not supported in HTML5
charoff number Not supported in HTML5
span number Specifies the number of columns a <col> element should span
valign top
middle
bottom
baseline		 Not supported in HTML5
width %
pixels
relative_length		 Not supported in HTML5

Global Attributes

The <col> tag also supports the Global Attributes in HTML5.

Event Attributes

The <col> tag also supports the Event Attributes in HTML5.

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