col vs colgroup

What is the practical difference between these elements? They seem to
accomplish the same thing. Is there an example of how one might be
advantageous over the other?

yaugin wrote:

What is the practical difference between these elements? They seem to
accomplish the same thing. Is there an example of how one might be
advantageous over the other?

I'd say the explanation of COL and COLGROUP in the specification
(http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/....html#h-11.2.4) does a pretty
good job of explaining this and giving examples.

The short summary: COL lets you apply certain attributes to columns;
COLGROUP lets you group columns together structurally (the columns have
a meaningful relationship to each other). COL is purely for styling;
COLGROUP has a relational meaning in the table.

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David
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