The HTML <th> tag is used for specifying a header cell or table header within a table.
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>HTML th Tag</title> </head> <body> <table border = "1"> <tr> <th>ID</th> <th>Product Details</th> </tr> <tr> <td>00L1</td> <td>i3, 500gb laptop</td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>
This will produce the following result −
This tag supports all the global attributes described in − HTML Attribute Reference
The HTML <th> tag also supports the following additional attributes −
Attribute | Value | Description |
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abbr | abbreviated_text | Deprecated − Specifies an abbreviated version of the content in a header cell. |
align | right left center justify char |
Deprecated − Content alignment in header cell. |
axis | name | Deprecated − Specifies a category for this th. |
bgcolor | rgb(x,x,x) #hexcode colorname |
Deprecated − Specifies the background color of the header cell. |
char | character | Deprecated − Specifies which character to align text on. Used when align = "char" |
charoff | pixels or % | Deprecated − Specifies an alignment offset (either in pixels or percentage value) against the first character as specified with the char attribute. Used when align = "char" |
colspan | number | Specifies the number of columns the header cell spans across. |
headers | id | Specifies one or more header cells a cell is related to. |
height | pixels | Deprecated − Specifies the height of the header cell. |
nowrap | nowrap | Deprecated − Prevents text from automatically wrapping. |
rowspan | numbers | Specifies the number of rows the header cell spans across. |
scope | col colgroup row rowgroup |
This attribute is used on header cells and specifies the cells that will use this header's information. |
valign | top middle bottom baseline |
Deprecated − Vertical alignment. |
width | pixels or % | Deprecated − Specifies the width of the header cell |
This tag supports all the event attributes described in − HTML Events Reference
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