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brandonlind2
brandonlind2
7,823 Points
Posted by brandonlind2
brandonlind2
7,823 Points

why cant I make a th element display block?

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
    <head>
        <title>new</title>
        <meta charset="utf-8">
        <meta name="description" content="this is a new test page, this is a new test page">
        <meta name="keywords" content="new,page,test">
        <style>
            body{
                background-color: blue;
                margin: auto;
                padding: 0,0,0,0;
            }
            table{
                margin: auto;
            }
            th{
                display: block; <!-- not working-->
            }
        </style>
    </head>
    <body>
        <table>
            <th>cell group 1</th>
            <td>cell 1</td>
            <td>cell 2</td>
            <td>cell 3</td>
            <th>cell group 2</th>
            <td>cell 2</td>
            <td>cell 3</td>
            <td>cell 4</td>
            <th>cell group 3</td>
            <td>cell 5</td>
            <td>cell 6</td>
            <td>cell 7</td>
        </table>
    </body>
</html>

2 Answers

Oana Giurgea
PLUS
Oana Giurgea
Courses Plus Student 14,283 Points
Oana Giurgea
Oana Giurgea
Courses Plus Student 14,283 Points

Every table must contains tbody and tr tags. A th tag has as inherit display: table-cell;

John Stuifbergen
John Stuifbergen
7,460 Points
John Stuifbergen
John Stuifbergen
7,460 Points

I'm not sure what you're trying accomplish, but trying to style a th or td a display:block is really bending what these tags are semantically supposed to be doing. I noticed you're missing a <tr> tag. Does the example below meet your needs?

<table>
    <tr>
        <th colspan="3">cell group 1</th>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>cell 1</td>
        <td>cell 2</td>
        <td>cell 3</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <th colspan="3">cell group 2</th>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>cell 2</td>
        <td>cell 3</td>
        <td>cell 4</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <th colspan="3">cell group 3</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>cell 5</td>
        <td>cell 6</td>
        <td>cell 7</td> 
    </tr>
</table>