Table with column group
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en"> <head> <title>HTML/XHTML: » Standard HTML/XHTML Tables</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" /> </head> <body> <div class="content"> <table border="1" frame="box" rules="groups"> <caption>Fun with Food</caption> <colgroup> <col /> </colgroup> <colgroup> <col align="center" /> <col align="char" char="." charoff="2" /> </colgroup> <thead> <tr> <th bgcolor="yellow">Fruit</th> <th bgcolor="yellow">Color</th> <th bgcolor="yellow">Cost per pound</th> </tr> </thead> <tfoot> <tr> <th colspan="3">This has been another fine table example.</th> </tr> </tfoot> <tbody> <tr> <td>Grapes</td> <td>Purple</td> <td>$1.45</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Cherries</td> <td>Red</td> <td>$1.99</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Kiwi</td> <td>Brown</td> <td>$11.50</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> </body> </html>