Christina Clarke's Midterm Exam Practice

Safe Tables

When we use tables to gain control over the layout of text and graphics on the webpage, text placed in a table cell wraps around the edge of the cell and not the edge of the monitor screen. So if your table is wider than the computer monitor screen, users will have to scroll back and forth to read the text in the cell. This is not very user friendly so if you are using table grids, you must make sure that the tables are not wider than the lowest resolution monitors. This way, every monitor will be able to display the entire table on the screen.