How To Style a Table with CSS by digital ocean

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Introduction

Tables have a long and complicated history on the web. Before CSS existed, the <table> element was the only possible avenue for creating rich design layouts on the Web.

But creating layout with <table> was not its intended or ideal use.

Now that better layout options are available, developers can use the <table> element for presenting tabular data as intended, much like a spreadsheet.

This allows for semantic HTML, or using HTML elements in alignment with their intended meaning.