What’s a row in a table?

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A table row runs horizontally in one line on a table and is normally made up of multiple boxes with information inside. When you draw a table on a piece of paper, you create columns and rows. Each horizontal row of tiles is a different table row. Often, the row at the top of the table is used to create headers, which tell the reader what information can be found in the boxes below, also known as a column. For example, the first three boxes in the first row of a table in a teacher’s attendance record might read “Student Name,” “Present,” and “Absent.”

Table rows are commonly used in HTML to create tables and format a web page. The HTML tag for a table row is

Student Attendance

Student’s name
Gift
Absent

Giglio
X
O

Mark
X
O

I count
O
X

In the past, many web designers used hidden tables to create their website layout. They could make the table invisible and put everything from text to images in a separate part of the table. This prevented things from moving or overlapping. While it is still possible to use tables to design a web page, it is quickly being replaced by the use of CSS to format the layout of a page.

Table rows can contain tiles of different lengths than the previous or next row. A table row might have only two boxes, one large and one small, while the row below it has three small boxes. The lines should still be the same total length, but the boxes may not match.
Programs like Microsoft Excel use rows and columns to create spreadsheets. Often, the user will adjust the length of the row boxes to give himself room to type the necessary headers. When you change the length of a box, it changes the length of the entire underlying column to keep it aligned. Users also have the ability to merge lines vertically, making one box take up more than one line and giving more space for information. This doesn’t affect any other boxes on the screen.

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