Here's a crash course.
I've added spaces after all of the < and before the > brackets below so that I can write this up in a post without the forum interpreting it as an actual table. When you're doing it for real, take the spaces out.
1. First, write some table tags. Every table has to go inside these:
< table border=1 > < /table >
2. Inside the table, there are rows, which are started with < tr > (table row) and ended with < /tr >
eg: a table with three rows would look like this:
< table border=1>
< tr >< /tr >
< tr >< /tr >
< tr >< /tr >
< /table >
3. Inside each row, there are cells for your table data, these are started with < td > and ended with < /td >. Your actual data goes between these tags.
eg: a table with three rows and two columns would look like this:
< table border=1>
< tr >< td >Row 1, Col 1< /td >< td >Row 1, Col 2< /td >< /tr >
< tr >< td >Row 2, Col 1< /td >< td >Row 2, Col 2< /td >< /tr >
< tr >< td >Row 3, Col 1< /td >< td >Row 3, Col 2< /td >< /tr >
< /table >
Note: I've split this up onto different lines to make it easier to see what's going on. When you're ready to post, you should take the line breaks out:
< table border=1>< tr >< td >Row 1, Col 1< /td >< td >Row 1, Col 2< /td >< /tr >< tr >< td >Row 2, Col 1< /td >< td >Row 2, Col 2< /td >< /tr >< tr >< td >< /td >Row 3, Col 1< td >Row 3, Col 2< /td >< /tr >< /table >
Removing the spaces from the tags to show what this looks like:
<table border=1><tr><td>Row 1, Col 1</td><td>Row 1, Col 2</td></tr><tr><td>Row 2, Col 1</td><td>Row 2, Col 2</td></tr><tr><td>Row 3, Col 1</td><td>Row 3, Col 2</td></tr></table>