HTML td element

The <td> HTML element defines a cell of a table that contains data and may be used as a child of the <tr> element.

The <td> may only be used within a <tr> element. When using the colspan and rowspan attributes to span data cells across multiple columns and rows, cells without these attributes defined (with a default value of 1) are automatically fitted into free available spaces in the table structure that span 1×1 cells, as illustrated in the following figure:

!Illustration demonstrating column and row spanning of table cells: cells 1, 3, and 4 spanning two rows; cell 2 spanning two columns; cells 5 and 6 fitting into the available cells that are the second and third columns in the second row