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HTML HTML Tables Structuring Tables Add the Table Footer Element

E Mula
E Mula
5,081 Points
Posted by E Mula
E Mula
5,081 Points

Inside the table footer, add a colspan attribute to the table cell so that it spans the width of the table.

need some help on where to insert the colspan attribute to the table cell . it keep saying its wrong

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>HTML Tables</title>
  </head>
  <body>

      <tfooter>
    <table>
      <tfooter>
      <thead>
        <tr>
          <th scope="col">Name</th>
          <th scope="col">Job</th>
        </tr>
      </thead>
      <tbody>
        <tfoot>
        <tr>
          <td>Nick</td>
          <td>Designer</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td>Andrew</td>
          <td>Developer</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td>Dave</td>
          <td>Developer</td>
          <tfoot>
        </tr>
       <tr>
      <td colspan="0">Data is updated every 15 minutes.</td>          
      </tr>       
      <tfooter>      

    </table>

  </body>
</html>

2 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,744 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,744 Points

To span the entire table, the element must cover 2 columns, but the value shown is 0.

There are some other issues as well that might interfere with completing the challenge:

  • there are several stray"<tfooter>" start tags (which is not a valid tag type)
  • there is no ending "</tfoot>" tag to go with the start tag
  • the table footer is overlapping an existing row
E Mula
E Mula
5,081 Points
E Mula
E Mula
5,081 Points

thanks !