HTML th tag and element

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HTML th element

1. HTML th (table header cell) element represents a table header cell of an HTML table.

2. A th element starts with <th> tag. And ends with </th> tag, which is optional.

Syntax

 <th>  
.......
</th>

Whether both start and end tags are required

The start tag is required but end tag is optional.

Can contain

HTML th element can contain One or more table td elements.

Can reside within

HTML th element can reside within table element.

Attributes

abbr, axis, headers, scope, rowspan, colspan.

Identifiers

id, class.

language information and text direction

lang, dir.

Title

Title.

Style

Style.

Events

onclick, ondblclick, onmousedown, onmouseup, onmouseover, onmousemove, onmouseout, onkeypress, onkeydown, onkeyup.

Cell alignment

align, char, charoff, valign attributes.

Supported doctypes

HTML 4.01 Strict, HTML 4.01 Transitional, and HTML 4.01 Frameset.

Example of using HTML th element

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>HTML th tag example &gt; HTML tutorial | w3resource</title>
</head>
<body>
<table border = "1">
<tr>
<th>Type</th>
<th>Description</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>PHP</td>
<td>Server side scripting</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>JavaScript</td>
<td>Client side scripting</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

Result

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HTML th tag example.

Pictorial presentation

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