HTML <col> Tag

Description

The <col> HTML element sets the width and other characteristics of one or more columns of a table. With this element, the browser starts showing the contents of the table, without waiting for it to fully load. <col> can be used in conjunction with the <colgroup> element, which defines a group of columns that share common characteristics.

Properties

Permitted Parents: <colgroup> only, though it can be implicitly defined as its start tag is not mandatory. The <colgroup> must not have a span attribute.
Content: None. It is an empty element.
Start/End Tags: Start tag: required, End tag: forbidden

Example

HTML

<table width="100%" border="1">

  <col align="left"></col>

  <col align="left"></col>

  <col align="right"></col>

  <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>

Result

Attributes

Attribute	Definition
name	Marks an area of the page that a link jumps to.
span	Specifies how many columns to span.
width	Width of the column.
align	Specifies the alignment of the content related to a col element.
valign	Specifies the vertical alignment of the content related to a col element.
char	Specifies the alignment of the content related to a col element to a character.
charoff	Specifies the number of characters the content will be aligned from the character specified by the char attribute.