Use css to style table

Some important and basic CSS properties are given below that assist in changing table style:

• Add borders
• Adjust borders
• Collapse borders
• Adjust width and height of the table
• Align vertical text
• Align horizontal text
• Add padding
• Define cell colors

We will now discuss all of the above-given CSS properties to style HTML tables with suitable examples.

Style Tables using CSS border property

CSS offers a “border” property that is used to add borders in a table. To add a border, you can adopt the following example.

Example
The below-given example will display a solid “black” border with “1px” width for whole table “table”, headers “th”, and columns “td”:

Style Table border using CSS width property

In the previous example, you have seen the method to insert a border around a table in CSS. The given “border” property does not specify the width, as you might want to adjust it according to your requirements. To do so, check out the provided example.

Example
In this example, we will create an HTML Table and style it in a way that it will span the entire scan with full width “100%”:

Style Tables using CSS border-collapse property

As you can see, the table created in the above-given example has a separate border for each row and column that might not give a decent look on a website. However, CSS permits you to collapse the borders into a single border using the “border-collapse” property.

Example
Now, we will utilize the “border-collapse” property to style the created table with one single border for both rows and columns:

Style Table using CSS width and height properties

In CSS, the “width” and “height” properties are primarily utilized for change the table matrices. For instance, in the following example, we will set the table width as “90%” and the height of the table header cell as “90px”:

table {
width : 90 %;
border-collapse: collapse;
}

Style Table cells alignment using CSS vertical-align property

CSS “vertical-align” property is utilized for aligning the text in the table cell from the top, bottom, or middle, but you have to select whether to align the row or the columns vertically. Let’s check the provided example:

width : 90 %;
border-collapse: collapse;
}

The above example will vertically align the table cell text to the bottom:

Style Table cells alignment using CSS horizontal-align property

CSS offers “horizontal-align” property for the purpose of aligning the text horizontally. This property can help to align the text to the left, right, or center:

width : 90 %;
border-collapse: collapse;
}

The above-given example will align the text added in the table cell with respect to bottom:

Style Tables using CSS padding property

width : 90 %;
border-collapse: collapse;
}

The below-given images signifies that we have successfully adding “20px” padding in between the border and the cell text:

Style Tables using CSS background-color property

CSS permits you to define colors separately for each table each column, row or cell. For instance, the following table will contain the background of the table header “th” as “orange” color and all “nth-child(even)” even number of rows “tr” will have “grey” background color:

th, td {
text- align : left;
padding: 8px;
}

tr:nth-child ( even ) { background- color :grey }

Output

Conclusion

To Style HTML Tables, you can utilize different CSS properties for adding and adjusting borders, creating collapse borders, adjusting width and height of the table, aligning text horizontally or vertically, adding padding or customizing rows, columns or cells with the specified colors. This blog demonstrated the usage of different CSS properties for style tables for a webpage. Give them a try and enjoy styling HTML tables in a new way!

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HTML Table Styling

If you add a background color on every other table row, you will get a nice zebra stripes effect.

To style every other table row element, use the :nth-child(even) selector like this:

Example

Note: If you use (odd) instead of (even) , the styling will occur on row 1,3,5 etc. instead of 2,4,6 etc.

HTML Table — Vertical Zebra Stripes

To make vertical zebra stripes, style every other column, instead of every other row.

Set the :nth-child(even) for table data elements like this:

Example

Note: Put the :nth-child() selector on both th and td elements if you want to have the styling on both headers and regular table cells.

Combine Vertical and Horizontal Zebra Stripes

You can combine the styling from the two examples above and you will have stripes on every other row and every other column.

If you use a transparent color you will get an overlapping effect.

Use an rgba() color to specify the transparency of the color:

Example

tr:nth-child(even) <
background-color: rgba(150, 212, 212, 0.4);
>

th:nth-child(even),td:nth-child(even) background-color: rgba(150, 212, 212, 0.4);
>

Horizontal Dividers

If you specify borders only at the bottom of each table row, you will have a table with horizontal dividers.

Add the border-bottom property to all tr elements to get horizontal dividers:

Example

Hoverable Table

Use the :hover selector on tr to highlight table rows on mouse over:

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