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Today in Titanic History Thursday, December 4, 2025 | | 1913 - 1st class survivor Miss Kornelia Theodosia Andrews died of pneumonia in Hudson, New York, USA at the age of 64.
1912 - 1st class survivor Mr Colonel Archibald Gracie died of a diabetic coma in New York City, New York, USA at the age of 53.
1930 - 1st class survivor Mrs Mary Eliza Compton died at the age of 83.
1987 - 2nd class survivor Master Sibley George Richards died in Penzance, Cornwall, England, UK at the age of 76.
1887 - 2nd class survivor Miss Alice Herman was born to Samuel Herman (butcher and hotelier) and Jane Laver Herman. She was twin to 2nd class survivor Kate Herman.
1927 - 3rd class survivor Mr Fahim ("Philip Zenni") Leeni died of typhoid fever (?pneumonia) at the age of 41.
1980 - 3rd class survivor Mr Olaus Jørgensen Abelseth died of heart failure / disease in Hettinger, North Dakota, USA at the age of 94.
1888 - Lookout and survivor Mr Archie Jewell was born to John Jewell (sailor) and Elizabeth Hooper Jewell in Bude, North Cornwall, England, UK.
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Tables
A table divides a webpage into cells. Depending on how you code it, the table itself, the rows, the columns, and individual cells can have different characteristics and sizes.
First, you need to know what each tag means. "TABLE" affects the whole table itself, so anything within the table tag should be what you want to happen in every cell. "TR" stands for "table row" which, while seldomly does, can have characteristics with the tag to affect the whole row. A row are horizontal and columns are vertical. All tables are constructed with rows (columns will be discussed later). "TD" stands for "table data" also known as a cell. There can be an infinite number of tables, rows, and cells on a webpage.
The TABLE, TR, and TD tags all must have a beginning tag and an end tag. To keep track of this you may want to indent (with the tab key) when you go from each different tag. The following is an example of a table with two rows and with two cells each (the brackets have been removed):
<TABLE>
<TR>
<TD>
text in cell 1
</TD>
<TD>
text in cell 2
</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD>
text in cell 3
</TD>
<TD>
text in cell 4
</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
Examples of characteristics that can be used in the TABLE tag:
width="[any number in pixels]"
height="[any number in pixels]"
border="[any number including zero]"
bgcolor="[a color or hex code such as #00F00F]"
background="[URL of any image to be in the background]"
align="[left, right, or center]"
cellpadding="[any number in pixels including zero]"
Cellpadding is the space between the border of the cell and the data within.
cellspacing="[any number in pixels including zero]"
Cellspacing is the space between each cell.
Examples of characteristics that can be used in the TR tag:
width="[any number in pixels]"
height="[any number in pixels]"
NOTE: Netscape with often ignore width and height tags in TR and TD tags.
bgcolor="[a color or hex code such as #00F00F]"
Examples of characteristics that can be used in the TD tag:
width="[any number in pixels]"
height="[any number in pixels]"
NOTE: Netscape with often ignore width and height tags in TR and TD tags.
bgcolor="[a color or hex code such as #00F00F]"
background="[URL of any image to be in the background]"
NOTE: Netscape will restart the tiling of a background image
align="[left, right, or center]"
valign="[bottom, top, middle, or center]"
VALIGN means "vertical alignment"
Using these characteristics requires putting them between the brackets of the opening tag.
Sometimes you will want a cell to be the width or height of several other cells. This means putting colspan="[number of columns you want the cell to equal]" in the TD tag. Similarly, rowspan="[number of rows you want the cell to equal]" will span multiple rows. You will want the TD with the colspan or rowspan in it to be in the row or column that you want to get spanned first.
Tables are very common on the internet. So common that I can guarantee that every major website has them. You may not be able to see them, because they used border="0" in the TABLE tag. To view the code to any page, go to "View | Source" in Internet Explorer and "View | Page Source" in Netscape.
The very best way to learn about tables, and all HTML for that matter, is to view the source of sites you like and change little things in code to see what they do. I've made a page for all of you to experiment with tables:
http://www.back-to-titanic.com/waves/copal/jan01_table-examples.html
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