Tutorial 4

1. What is the drawback of a fixed-width layout? What can be done in order to

alleviate the drawback of a fixed-width layout?

2. What are the difference between a fixed-width fonts and proportional fonts?

3. What is the general syntax for specifying cell padding?

4. What is the default value for a table border?

5. What are the 2 attributes that can be used to control the alignment of the cell’s
text?

6. Why should you use a fixed-width font when creating a text table?

7. What are the drawbacks of using a graphical table?

8. What is the general syntax to merge several rows into a single row?

9. How can you ensure that cells do not change in size?

10. What are the two types of tables that we can place in the web page? In what
condition we should use them?

11. What are the differences between fixed-width layout and fluid layout?

12. Write the HTML code to create the table shown in the figure above.