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HTML <th> tag

Example

A simple HTML table, containing two columns and two rows:

<table border="1">
<tr>
    <th>Month</th>
    <th>Savings</th>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>January</td>
    <td>$100</td>
</tr>
</table>

Try it yourself! (more examples at the bottom of this page)

Definition and Usage

The <th> tag defines a header cell in an HTML table.

An HTML table has two kinds of cells:

Header cells - contains header information (created with the th element)
Standard cells - contains data (created with the td element)

The text in a th element is bold and centered.

The text in a td element is regular and left-aligned.

Browser Support

The <th> tag is supported in all major browsers.

Differences Between HTML and XHTML

The "bgcolor", "height", "width", and "nowrap" attributes of the th element were deprecated in HTML 4.01, and are not supported in XHTML 1.0 Strict DTD.

Tips and Notes

Tip: Use the colspan and rowspan attributes to let the content span over multiple columns or rows!

Optional Attributes

DTD indicates in which DTD the attribute is allowed. S=Strict, T=Transitional, and F=Frameset.

Attribute	Value	Description	DTD
abbr	text	Specifies an abbreviated version of the content in a cell	STF
align	left right center justify char	Aligns the content in a cell	STF
axis	category_name	Categorizes cells	STF
bgcolor	rgb(x,x,x) #xxxxxx colorname	Deprecated. Use styles instead. Specifies a background color for a cell	TF
char	character	Aligns the content in a cell to a character	STF
charoff	pixels %	Sets the number of characters the content will be aligned from the character specified by the char attribute	STF
colspan	number	Sets the number of columns a cell should span	STF
height	pixels %	Deprecated. Use styles instead. Sets the height of a cell	TF
nowrap	nowrap	Deprecated. Use styles instead. Specifies that the content inside a cell should not wrap	TF
rowspan	number	Sets the number of rows a cell should span	STF
scope	col colgroup row rowgroup	Defines a way to associate header cells and data cells in a table	STF
valign	top middle bottom baseline	Vertical aligns the content in a cell	STF
width	pixels %	Deprecated. Use styles instead. Specifies the width of a cell	TF

Standard Attributes

id, class, title, style, dir, lang, xml:lang

For a full description, go to Standard Attributes.

Event Attributes

onclick, ondblclick, onmousedown, onmouseup, onmouseover, onmousemove, onmouseout, onkeypress, onkeydown, onkeyup

For a full description, go to Event Attributes.

Try-It-Yourself Demos

Tables
How to create simple HTML tables.

Table borders
HTML tables with different borders.

Table headers
How to create table headers.

Empty cells
How to use " " to handle cells that have no content.

Table cells that span more than one row/column
How to define table cells that span more than one row or one column.

Tags inside a table
How to display elements inside other elements.

Add a background color and a background image to a table cell
How to add a background to a table cell.

Align the content in a table cell
How to use the "align" attribute to align the content of cells.