Heydon Pickering 5/29/2025

The col element

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This technical blog post examines the HTML <col> element, arguing it's often unnecessary for creating tables. It explains how <col> and <colgroup> work together to group columns for styling, discusses accessibility implications, and highlights the element's counter-intuitive behavior with CSS and the `span` attribute.

The col element

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