<col>

HTML <col> Tag

Instance

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head> 
<meta charset="utf-8"> 
<title>php中文网(php.cn)</title> 
</head>
<body>

<table border="1">
  <colgroup>
    <col span="2" style="background-color:red">
    <col style="background-color:yellow">
  </colgroup>
  <tr>
    <th>ISBN</th>
    <th>Title</th>
    <th>Price</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>3476896</td>
    <td>My first HTML</td>
    <td></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>5869207</td>
    <td>My first CSS</td>
    <td></td>
  </tr>
</table>

</body>
</html>

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Browser support

All major browsers support< col> tag.

Tag definition and usage instructions

<col> tag specifies the column attributes of each column inside the <colgroup> element.

By using the <col> tag, you can apply a style to an entire column without having to repeatedly set the style for each cell or row.

Differences between HTML 4.01 and HTML5

Most attributes from HTML 4.01 are no longer supported in HTML5.

Differences between HTML and XHTML

In HTML, the <col> tag does not have a closing tag.

In XHTML, the <col> tag must be closed correctly.

Properties

Properties	Value	Description
align	left Right center Justify char	HTML5 is not supported. Specifies the horizontal alignment of content related to the <col> element.
char	character	HTML5 Not supported. Specifies which character is used to align content related to the <col> element.
charoff	number	HTML5 Not supported. Specifies the offset of the first alignment character.
span	number	Specifies the number of columns the <col> element should span.
valign	top middle bottom Baseline	HTML5 is not supported. Specifies the vertical alignment of content associated with the <col> element.
width	% pixels Relative_length	HTML5 is not supported. Specifies the width of a <col> element

##Global attribute

<col> tag supports HTML Global properties.

Event attributes

<col> tag supports HTML event attributes.