Tables and <H> tags

[JuniorHarris]

Tables and <H> tags used to cause me considerable grief in the fact that every time I would use a <H> tag within a table, I would always get an extra blank line below the table element. However, I learned that if the closing </H> tag is placed outside the closing table </TD> tag the problem disappears:

old format:
<td><h1>Heading Text</h1></td> - produces extra blank line

new format:
<td><h1>Heading Text</td></h1> - suppresses extra blank line


This solution seems to work fine in both IE (5.5) and Netscape (4.75).

[ihelpyou]

Great tip JuniorHarris! :up:

[MazY]

Always wondered how to get rid of that annoying thing. Call myself a web designer... :D

Thanx JH

[JuniorHarris]

:D

[ihelpyou]

Hey all you good web designers and programmers out there, I bet you hold a NUMBER of good tips in your heads. Cough them up in this forum please.

Yes. That includes you JH and Maz.

[MsSearch]

Great tip!! :up:

quick question....I know spiders see the text in <H> tags as more important words/keywords....but what about <th> tags? Does the text in table header tags get seen by the spiders as having the same emphasis as text within an <h> tag? Do spiders see text within <th> tags as being emphasised at all or as more relevant than the regular content on the page?

or should I stick to <H> and forget the <th> tags?

Always wondered this....

[ihelpyou]

Not too sure MsSearch. I would stick to the <h> cause we know that does.

[JuniorHarris]

That is a tough question to answer, and probably an even tougher one to code!~ An engine would have to specifically search to include the <th> which may only appear in tables, whereas <h> tags are used throughout the document (whether in a table or not).

[Sharon & Roy]

quick question....I know spiders see the text in <H> tags as more important words/keywords....but what about <th> tags?

Hello MsSearch,

We can only speak for Google on this one. According to Google, placing your keywords in the "Table Header Cell" <TH> will give your page "higher ranking consideration".

Does the text in table header tags get seen by the spiders as having the same emphasis as text within an <h> tag?

Now, while Google does not give specifics as to "how much" higher ranking consideration they give to keywords inside a "Bold Text Tag" <b></b> or <strong></strong> and a "Heading Tag" <H1></H1> and a "Table Header Cell Tag" <TH></TH> they "DO" give them all higher ranking consideration.

Deductive and intuitive reasoning tells us that a "Table Header Tag" <TH></TH> DOES NOT have the "same emphasis" as a "Heading Tag" <H1></H1>

Do spiders see text within <th> tags as being emphasised at all or as more relevant than the regular content on the page?

YES

or should I stick to <H> and forget the <th> tags?

No need to forget the <th> tags, unless you agree with us that it may not have the "same emphasis" as a <H1> tag and that is why you asked your question in the first place.

For those of you not familiar with how to code the <TH> tag just view our ...

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Example of the ...

Table Header Cell <TH> in a Table Header <THEAD> and a Table Footer <TFOOT>

http://www.iwon.net/articles/seo/example-th-tag.shtml

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