A document is not infrequently used to display data to the user. There are many ways to display data, ranging from using graphs, lists, up to the table. The table is generally used to display tabular data in the form of rows and columns. the intersection of rows and columns in a table called a cell. In html, allows to display the data in the table is attractive.
Although it looks simple, the design of the table is done so far is a table that only store data. The data is stored and shown themselves to have no structure, so there is no good data organization. Organizing the data is good and right in an HTML table will be very helpful in developing web applications, especially if the table who want to build must be dynamic.
The addition of columns and rows is not enough to organize the data in the table, because it can not directly see which part of the table is the data, which is data content, and which is the value of aggregation of data. HTML provides several elements that are specific to meet some of the things mentioned earlier, namely the elements table, tr, td, th, caption.
Anatomy of a web page
Broadly speaking anatomy or the composition of a web page consists of containing block, Logo, navigation, content, white space can be described as follows
Figure 10.1 anatomy web page
Containing Block.
Containing block is part of a web page that wraps all the components of a web page. Generally made with the <body> <div> or <table>.
Logo.
Corporate identity, the organization, the owner of the site.
Navigation.
Navigation or menu is an essential part of the site that allows visitors to move around the page.
Content.
Content, or content is everything, because this is where most of the information presented.
Footer.
Footer is a bottom and contains brief information about the owner of the site (copyright) and some links.
Whitespace.
Whitespace is a blank area which restrict inter-component. Whitespace is important so that visitors have stopped in the space between the parts other sites. Whitespace can also be filled with banners or animation.