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HTML HTML Tables Structuring Tables Add the Table Footer Element

Ricard Taujenis
Ricard Taujenis
4,383 Points
Posted by Ricard Taujenis
Ricard Taujenis
4,383 Points

Hy have an issue with adding colspan at the correct place

have to place it at <tfoot> but afterwards it says at the <td> ?

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>HTML Tables</title>
  </head>
  <body>

    <table>
      <thead>
        <tr>
          <th scope="col">Name</th>
          <th scope="col">Job</th>
        </tr>
      </thead>
      <tbody>
        <tfoot><td colspan>Data is updated every 15 minutes</td>
        <tr>
          <td>Nick</td>
          <td>Designer</td>
        </tr>
      </tfoot>
        <tr>
          <td>Andrew</td>
          <td>Developer</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td>Dave</td>
          <td>Developer</td>
        </tr>
      </tbody>
    </table>

  </body>
</html>

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,248 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,248 Points

Looks like you have a few issues, but somehow most got past the checker up to this point! In your footer:

        <tfoot><td colspan>Data is updated every 15 minutes</td>
        <tr>
          <td>Nick</td>
          <td>Designer</td>
        </tr>
      </tfoot>

The challenge asked you to create ONE cell in the row. You have 3 here, and one of them isn't inside the row tags at all - you don't want that! But that one does contain the text they wanted to see. So move it inside the row where the other 2 are, and then delete those extra 2.

Then, when you add the colspan attribute, remember to give it a value (colspan=VALUE). The challenge says to make it span the whole table, so the value you want to give it would be the same as the number of cells that are on the other rows of the table.

Hopefully that will get you back on track.