Lab 9: Practice with Tables colspan and rowspan

Instructions:

  1. For this lab you will be creating a new page (lab9.htm) and creating the layouts shown below.
  2. Use XHTML 1.0 Transitional for this lab.
  3. Put in a meta tag indicating that you are the author of the page.
  4. Also put in a meta tag for description.
  5. If you want to put in meta tags for robots, cache-control, pragma, and expires, that would be fine. Whether you include them or not is at your discretion.
  6. Each table is 300 pixels wide.
  7. The first table uses #008000 and #0000ff as background colors.
  8. The second table uses #000000, #808080, and #c0c0c0 as background colors.
  9. The third table uses #800080 as a background color.
  10. The fourth table uses #000000 and #0000ff as background colors.
  11. Within a given table each column is the same width.
  12. Use a non-breaking space in each cell to hold them open.
  13. Validate your code at the W3C validator (validator.w3.org). Make any indicated corrections to achieve successful validation.
  14. Copy lab9.htm to your labs directory, on both the student server and your removable media.
  15. Update your class page to link to lab9.htm and also include a link back to your class page at the bottom of the lab page.

Layouts for Lab 9