HTML tr tag and element

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HTML tr element

1. HTML tr (table row) element represents a table row of an HTML table.

2. A tr element starts with <tr> tag. And ends with </tr> tag, which is optional.

Syntax

 <tr>  
.......
</tr>

Whether both start and end tags are required

The start tag is required but end tag is optional.

Can contain

HTML tr element can contain One or more table td elements.

Can reside within

HTML tr element can reside within table element, th, col, colgroup, tbody elements.

Attributes

Identifiers

id, class.

language information and text direction

lang, dir.

Title

Title.

Style

Style.

Events

onclick, ondblclick, onmousedown, onmouseup, onmouseover, onmousemove, onmouseout, onkeypress, onkeydown, onkeyup.

Cell alignment

align, char and charoff attributes.

Supported doctypes

HTML 4.01 Strict, HTML 4.01 Transitional, and HTML 4.01 Frameset.

Example of using HTML tr element

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>HTML tr tag example &gt; HTML tutorial | w3resource</title>
</head>
<body>
<table border = "1">
<tr>
<th>Type</th>
<th>Description</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>PHP</td>
<td>Server side scripting</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>JavaScript</td>
<td>Client side scripting</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

Result

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HTML tr tag example.

Pictorial presentation

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