How to use an HTML tag inside HTML table?

We can easily add HTML tag inside a table. The HTML tag should be placed inside the <td> tag. For example, adding a paragraph <p>…</p> tag or other available tags inside the <td> tag.

Syntax

Following is the syntax to use an HTMl tag inside HTML table.

<td>
   <p> Paragraph of the context</p>
<td>

Example 1

Given below is an example to use an HTML tag inside HTML table.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
   <meta charset="UTF-8">
   <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
   <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
   <style>
      table,tr,th,td {
         border:1px solid black;
      }
   </style>
</head>
<body>
   <table style="width: 50%">
      <caption style="text-align: center; ">Employees</caption>
      <tr>
         <th >EmployeeName</th>
         <th >About Employee</th>
      </tr>
      <tr>
         <td >Yadav</td>
         <td ><p>Lokesh yadav is a content developer at tutorialspoint.</p></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
         <td>Abdul</td>
         <td ><p>Abdul is a content developer at tutorialspoint.</p></td>
      </tr>
   </table>
</body>
</html>

Following is the output for the above example program.

We can also add other HTML tags inside HTML tables.

Example 2

Following is the syntax to use an HTML tag inside HTML table.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
   <meta charset="UTF-8">
   <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
   <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
   <style>
      table,tr,th,td {
         border:1px solid black;
      }
   </style>
</head>
<body>
   <table style="width: 50%">
      <caption style="text-align: center; ">Employees</caption>
      <tr>
         <th>EmployeeName</th>
         <th>Languages Known</th>
      </tr>
      <tr>
         <td>Yadav</td>
         <td><ul>
            <li>HTML</li>
            <li>Java</li>
            <li>C</li>
         </ul></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
         <td>Abdul</td>
         <td ><ul>
         <li>C#</li>
         <li>Java</li>
         <li>C</li>
         </ul></td>
      </tr>
   </table>
</body>
</html>

Following is the output for the above example program.

Example 3

Another example to use a HTML tag inside a HTML table is seen as following −

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
   <style>
      table, th, td { border: 1px solid black; width: 400px; }
   </style>
</head>
<body>
   <h1> Total Points</h1>
   <table>
      <tr>
         <th>Technologies</th>
         <th>Points</th>
      </tr>
      <tr>
         <td>Programming Languages
         <ul>
         <li>C++</li>
         <li>Java</li>
         <li>C</li>
        </ul>
         </td>
         <td>100</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
         <td>Database
         <ul>
         <li>MySQL</li>
         <li>Oracle</li>
         <li>CouchDB</li>
         </ul>
         </td>
         <td>50</td>
      </tr>
   </table>
</body>
</html>

Updated on: 18-Oct-2022

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