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Chapter 11 ✦ Table and List Objects (Chapter 27)
Notice that the cells of the THEAD element are untouched by the action imposed on
the TBODY element.
COL and COLGROUP Element Objects
Properties
span
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Example
The following statement assigns a span of 3 to a newly created COLGROUP element
stored in the variable colGroupA:
colGroupA.span = 3
TR Element Object
Properties
cells
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Example
Use The Evaluator (Chapter 13 in the JavaScript Bible) to retrieve the number of
TD elements in the second row of the demonstrator table. Enter the following statement
into the top text box (W3C DOM syntax shown here):
document.getElementById(“myTable”).rows[1].cells.length
height
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TR.height