Styling Tables Working with CSS

CSS Web Development Front End Technology

We can define styles for tables using CSS. The following properties are used to style <table> and its elements −

border
The CSS border property is used to define border-width, border-style and border-color.
border-collapse
This property is used to specify whether a <table> elements should have a shared or separate border.
caption
The caption-side property is used to vertically position the table caption box.
empty-cells
This property is used to specify the display of empty cells of a table.
table-layout To define the algorithm to be used by the browser for laying out rows, columns and cells of a table.

Example

The following examples illustrate styling of tables −

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
body {
   font-family: 'Bookman Old Style', serif;
}
th {
   letter-spacing: 1.9px;
}
#one {
   border-right: thick solid blue;
}
td {
   text-align: center;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h2>Employee List</h2>
<div>
<table>
<tr>
<th id="one">Employee</th>
<th>Department</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>John </td>
<td>Marketing</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Brad</td>
<td>Finance</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Tim </td>
<td>IT</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Steve</td>
<td>Operations</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Output

This gives the following output −

Example

Live Demo

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
table {
   float: left;
   empty-cells: hide;
   box-shadow: inset 0 0 4px orange;
}
tr {
   box-shadow: inset 0 0 10px greenyellow;
}
td {
   font-style: italic;
   box-shadow: inset 0 0 8px red;
}
table,td {
   margin: 6px;
   padding: 6px;
   border: 1px solid black;
}
table
</style>
</head>
<body>
<table>
<caption>Demo Table</caption>
<tr>
<th>Head 1</th>
<th>Head 2</th>
<th>Head 3</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>demo</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td>demo</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td>demo</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>