Tables can be somewhat difficult to code.  We will simply touch on the highlights to get you started into coding tables.  There are three basic steps to defining a simple table.  First Define the Table itself (appearance of table, cell spacing, backgrounds, etc.) then define a row of the table (Again setting the appearance properties to define the background, alignment, etc.) and finally defining the columns for a table.

Think of a table as a Grid.  The table itself is the outside boundary of the Grid, and the grid itself is made up of Rows and columns.  A Cell represents a single block that can be identified by an X,Y coordinate.  The following is an example of a table with 3 rows and 5 columns:

As you can see from the above example. There are a total of 15 cells.  The following is the HTML code that is used to create the above table:

Ok, let's proceed with defining a table, then rows, then columns (or cells):