You don’t know HTML tables

March 13, 2026

“You Don’t Know HTML…” title, letters T, A, B, L, E, S in table cells, Frank M Taylor in a cell, a Germanic languages table, and a BetterTable class code snippet.

Frank M Taylor goes beyond the basics, exploring table vocabulary, the Table Object Model API, header cell semantics with scope and headers attributes, and practical patterns for building accessible, well-structured tables with <thead>, <tbody>, <tfoot>, and JavaScript helpers.

blog.frankmtaylor.com/2026/03/05/you-dont-know-html-tables

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