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HTML HTML Tables Table Basics Create a Table

Gabriel Adams
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Can't get past this quick even though I feel like I'm entering the correct code. What am I missing?

Error: "Be sure to include exactly 2 <td> tags between each of the four <tr> tags."

I have done this yet I cannot proceed.

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>HTML Tables</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <table>
      <tr>
        <td>Name<td>
        <tr>
          <td>Job</td>
          <tr>
            <td>Email<td>
            <tr>
              <td>Phone<td>
  </body>
</html>

3 Answers

jb30
jb30
44,807 Points
jb30
jb30
44,807 Points

The code has 7 <td> elements. The line <td>Job</td> contains only one <td> element.

Jason Larson
Jason Larson
8,361 Points
Jason Larson
Jason Larson
8,361 Points

While jb30 is correct, I'd like to point out that coding tables like this is going to cause you lots of issues with readability and sometimes with functionality. It is a good idea (and is required with some frameworks and languages) to close your tags. If you had closed your tags, it would have been much easier for you to see where your mistake was. Many developers would have written it like this:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>HTML Tables</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <table>
      <tr>
        <td>Name</td>
        <td>Job</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>Bob</td>
        <td>Artist</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>Todd</td>
        <td>Developer</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>Joe</td>
        <td>Manager</td>
      </tr>
    </table>
  </body>
</html>

While this is usually the preferred method of formatting, sometimes if you have small amounts of data in the cells, it can be easier to read if you make the code actually look like a table, like this:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>HTML Tables</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <table>
      <tr> <td>Name</td>  <td>Job</td>       </tr>
      <tr> <td>Bob</td>   <td>Artist</td>    </tr>
      <tr> <td>Todd</td>  <td>Developer</td> </tr>
      <tr> <td>Joe</td>   <td>Manager</td>   </tr>
    </table>
  </body>
</html>