Why a Colourful Table?

A colorful table looks very impressive while writing content in a webpage. Following is an example of the Output and the Code. <Table> tag is used to create a table.

Steps to Create an HTML Script using Notepad:

If you are really interested to learn or test a HTML script, then here are the steps. There are plenty of tools to create webpages using HTML codes. But I am going to give you the most simple tool to learn HTML.The tool, you will need to use a text editor like “Notepad (for Windows).”

Steps :

  1. Open Notepad
  2. Create a New Document (copy and paste the code given below)
  3. Save File in HTML
  4. View the saved File in a Web browser

The Output

Last Name First Name Department
Sinha Susmita Commerce
Deb Antara Library Science
Dhar Tanushree Law

The Code

<html>
<style>
table {
  font-family: Times New Roman;
  border-collapse: collapse;
  width: 100%;
}
td, th {
  border: 1px solid red;
  text-align: Center;
  padding: 8px;
}
tr:nth-child(even) {
  background-color: lightgreen;
}
</style>
<body>
<h3><Center>List of Students and Departments</Center></h3>
<table style="width:100%">
  <tr>
    <th>Last Name</th>
    <th>First Name</th>
    <th>Department</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Sinha</td>
    <td>Susmita</td>
    <td>Commerce</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Deb</td>
    <td>Antara</td>
    <td>Library Science</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Dhar</td>
    <td>Tanushree</td>
    <td>Law</td>
  </tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>