Lab 3: Movie Tables


Movie Table #1

Title Genre Summary Rating
Kurosawa's Dreams Fantasy Director Akira Kurosawa teams up with Industrial Light and Magic to bring eight of his dreams to life. Excellent
good
Star Trek: Nemesis Science Fiction Another attmept to squeeze life out of the Trek franchise, this awful film may lay waste to the cherished memories of even the most die-hard Trekkies. Bloody Awful
bad
Flesh & Blood Historical Fiction A tale of war, betrayal, evisceration, plague, and love. Decent
tolerable
Batman Adventure The classic original, with Adam West and Burt Ward. Campy as All Get Out
good

This table has borders. It creates a clear separation between elements of the table, so it's easy to see which reviews go with which movies. This is another example ofa table that makes use of borders to help visually organize the data.


Movie Table #2

Title Genre Summary Rating
Kurosawa's Dreams Fantasy Director Akira Kurosawa teams up with Industrial Light and Magic to bring eight of his dreams to life. Excellent
groovy
Star Trek: Nemesis Science Fiction Another attmept to squeeze life out of the Trek franchise, this awful film may lay waste to the cherished memories of even the most die-hard Trekkies. Bloody Awful
heinous
Flesh & Blood Historical Fiction A tale of war, betrayal, evisceration, plague, and love. Decent
so-so...
Batman Adventure The classic original, with Adam West and Burt Ward. Campy as All Get Out
bam!

This table does not have borders (or colors -- when colors are present, they tend to create "virtual borders", which kind of destroys the point of removing the borders to begin with). It's not as easy to think of this as an organized collection of data. This strategy is better for simple layout. This is an exmaple of a page that uses tables without borders for the purpose of controlling layout (though it also uses other methods to control layout, and it also uses tables with borders).


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