WEBT 143 Web Standards

Tables Lab

Tables have a specific purpose on the web, to display tabular data. The objective of this lab is to mark up and style a tabular data table using common table tags and considering accessibility.

Details

Using your template markup a valid XHTML strict document and name it tableExample.html. This page will be contain your table experiment.

Minimally, your table should contain information on 5 of your favorite movies and include information for...

  1. title
  2. director
  3. year
  4. lead actor
  5. genre

Need help finding this info out, check IMDB of course!

Technical requirements

Your table MUST be properly marked up and styled using table, tr, td, th, caption, thead, tbody, tfoot, col tags.

Your table must be styles efficiently using CSS and at least one column and one row must be styled uniquely (see the book for examples).

Remember you should be using notepad to edit tableExample.html. The experience of hand coding your own table in invaluable.

You should validate the document before submitting the assignment.

Grading

Below is the point distribution for the project. Be sure to complete all requirements as listed. I will use this table to grade your assignment.

Requirement Points Earned
Requirements met efficiently as listed above 15  
File is neat, this includes markup as well as what you see in the browser. 5  
File validates as Transitional XHTML and CSS 5  
Total 25