<colgroup> tag in HTML
The <colgroup> tag is used to specifies properties for a group of one or more columns in a table for formatting.
Important Description
- The <colgroup> for applying styles to entire columns, instead of repeating the styles for each cell.
- The <colgroup> tag must be closed in XHTML.
- The <colgroup> tag must be a child of a <table> element.
- Use the <col> tag within the <colgroup> tag to define different properties to a column.
Example of <colgroup> tag
Result Look Like
| Title |
Descriptions |
| HTML |
Hyper Text Markup Language |
| CSS |
Cascading Style Sheets |
<colgroup> Tag Browser Support
| Element |
Chrome |
Edge |
Firefox |
Safari |
Opera |
| <colgroup> |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Global Attributes
Event Attributes
Attributes
Most of the attributes in HTML 4.01 are not supported in HTML5.
| Attribute |
Value |
Description |
| align |
right
left
center
justify
char |
Defines horizontal alignment, not supported in HTML5. |
| char |
character |
Defines a character to use to align text on (use with align = "char"), not supported in HTML5. |
| charoff |
number |
Specifies the number of characters the content will be aligned from the character by the char attribute, not supported in HTML5. |
| span |
number |
Specifies the number of columns a column group should span |
| valign |
top
middle
bottom
baseline |
Vertical aligns the content in a column group, not supported in HTML5. |
| width |
%
pixels
relative_length |
Specifies the width of a column group, not supported in HTML5. |