colgroup and col tags are used to format entire columns
<?xml version = "1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns = "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title> - Tables</title>
</head>
<body>
<table border = "1">
<caption>Here is a more complex sample table.</caption>
<colgroup>
<col align = "right" span = "1" />
</colgroup>
<thead>
<tr valign = "bottom">
<th># of Humps</th>
<th>Indigenous region</th>
<th>Spits?</th>
<th>Produces Wool?</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<th>C</th>
<td>2</td>
<td>A</td>
<td rowspan = "2">L</td>
<td rowspan = "2">L</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>L</th>
<td>1</td>
<td>A</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</body>
</html>
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