# HTML Layouts

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Websites often display content in multiple columns (like a magazine or newspaper).

# City Gallery

London
Paris
Tokyo

# London

London is the capital city of England. It is the most populous city in the United Kingdom, with a metropolitan area of over 13 million inhabitants.

Standing on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its founding by the Romans, who named it Londinium.

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## HTML Layout Using <div> Elements

| The <div> element is often used as a layout tool, because it can easily be positioned with CSS.

This example uses 4 <div> elements to create a multiple column layout:

## Example

<body>
<div id="header">
<h1>City Gallery</h1>
</div>
<div id="nav">
London<br>
Paris<br>
Tokyo<br>
</div>
<div id="section">
<h1>London</h1>
<p>
London is the capital city of England. It is the most populous city in the United Kingdom,
with a metropolitan area of over 13 million inhabitants.
</p>
<p>
Standing on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia,
its history going back to its founding by the Romans, who named it Londinium.
</p>
</div>
<div id="footer">
Copyright © W3Schools.com
</div>
</body>
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## The CSS:

<style>
#header {
background-color:black;
color:white;
text-align:center;
padding:5px;
}
#nav {
line-height:30px;
background-color:#eeeeee;
height:300px;
width:100px;
float:left;
padding:5px;
}
#section {
width:350px;
float:left;
padding:10px;
}
#footer {
background-color:black;
color:white;
clear:both;
text-align:center;
padding:5px;
}
</style>

## Website Layout Using HTML5

HTML5 offers new semantic elements that define different parts of a web page:

header | Defines a header for a document or a section
nav | Defines a container for navigation links
section | Defines a section in a document
article | Defines an independent self-contained article
aside | Defines content aside from the content (like a sidebar)
footer | Defines a footer for a document or a section
details | Defines additional details
summary | Defines a heading for the details element

This example uses <header>, <nav>, <section>, and <footer> to create a multiple column layout:

## Example

<body>
<header>
<h1>City Gallery</h1>
</header>
<nav>
London<br>
Paris<br>
Tokyo<br>
</nav>
<section>
<h1>London</h1>
<p>
London is the capital city of England. It is the most populous city in the United Kingdom,
with a metropolitan area of over 13 million inhabitants.
</p>
<p>
Standing on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia,
its history going back to its founding by the Romans, who named it Londinium.
</p>
</section>
<footer>
Copyright © W3Schools.com
</footer>
</body>
Try it yourself »

## The CSS

<style>
header {
background-color:black;
color:white;
text-align:center;
padding:5px;
}
nav {
line-height:30px;
background-color:#eeeeee;
height:300px;
width:100px;
float:left;
padding:5px;
}
section {
width:350px;
float:left;
padding:10px;
}
footer {
background-color:black;
color:white;
clear:both;
text-align:center;
padding:5px;
}

## HTML Layout Using Tables

| The <table> element was not designed to be a layout tool. The purpose of the <table> element is to display tabular data.

Layout can be achieved using the <table> element, because table elements can be styled with CSS:

## Example

<body>
<table class="lamp">
<tr>
<th>
<img src="/images/lamp.jpg" alt="Note" style="height:32px;width:32px">
</th>
<td>
The table element was not designed to be a layout tool.
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
Try it yourself »

## The CSS

<style>
table.lamp {
width:100%;
border:1px solid #d4d4d4;
}
table.lamp th, td {
padding:10px;
}
table.lamp td {
width:40px;
}
</style>
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