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title: <col>
slug: Web/HTML/Element/col
translation_of: Web/HTML/Element/col
---
<div>{{HTMLRef}}</div>

<div>O elemento <strong>HTML <code>&lt;col&gt;</code> </strong>define uma tabela contendo colunas e sendo utilizada para definições semanticas em todas as colunas comuns. É normalmente encontrada dentro do elemento("colgroup")}} .</div>

<div>Este elemento permite a estilização de colunas utilizando-se do CSS, porém apenas um numero pequeno de atributos que terão efeito dentro das colunas (<a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/tables.html#columns">veja as especificações do CSS 2.1</a> a partir dessa lista).</div>

<table class="properties">
 <tbody>
  <tr>
   <th scope="row"><a href="/en-US/docs/HTML/Content_categories">Content categories</a></th>
   <td>None.</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <th scope="row">Permitted content</th>
   <td>None, it is an {{Glossary("empty element")}}.</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <th scope="row">Tag omission</th>
   <td>The start tag is mandatory, but, as it is a void element, the use of an end tag is forbidden.</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <th scope="row">Permitted parents</th>
   <td>{{HTMLElement("colgroup")}} only, though it can be implicitly defined as its start tag is not mandatory. The {{HTMLElement("colgroup")}} must not have a {{htmlattrxref("span", "colgroup")}} attribute.</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <th scope="row">Permitted ARIA roles</th>
   <td>None</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <th scope="row">DOM interface</th>
   <td>{{domxref("HTMLTableColElement")}}</td>
  </tr>
 </tbody>
</table>

<h2 id="Atributos">Atributos</h2>

<p>This element includes the <a href="/en-US/docs/HTML/Global_attributes">global attributes</a>.</p>

<dl>
 <dt>{{htmlattrdef("align")}} {{Deprecated_inline("html4.01")}}, {{obsolete_inline("html5")}}</dt>
 <dd>This enumerated attribute specifies how horizontal alignment of each column cell content will be handled. Possible values are:
 <ul>
  <li><code>left</code>, aligning the content to the left of the cell</li>
  <li><code>center</code>, centering the content in the cell</li>
  <li><code>right</code>, aligning the content to the right of the cell</li>
  <li><code>justify</code>, inserting spaces into the textual content so that the content is justified in the cell</li>
  <li><code>char</code>, aligning the textual content on a special character with a minimal offset, defined by the {{htmlattrxref("char", "col")}} and {{htmlattrxref("charoff", "col")}} attributes {{unimplemented_inline(2212)}}.</li>
 </ul>

 <p>If this attribute is not set, its value is inherited from the {{htmlattrxref("align", "colgroup")}} of the {{HTMLElement("colgroup")}} element this <code>&lt;col&gt;</code> element belongs too. If there are none, the <code>left</code> value is assumed.</p>

 <div class="note"><strong>Note: </strong>Do not use this attribute as it is obsolete (not supported) in the latest standard.

 <ul>
  <li>To achieve the same effect as the <code>left</code>, <code>center</code>, <code>right</code> or <code>justify</code> values:

   <ul>
    <li>Do not try to set the {{cssxref("text-align")}} property on a selector giving a {{HTMLElement("col")}} element. Because {{HTMLElement("td")}} elements are not descendant of the {{HTMLElement("col")}} element, they won't inherit it.</li>
    <li>If the table doesn't use a {{htmlattrxref("colspan", "td")}} attribute, use the <code>td:nth-child(an+b)</code> CSS selector. Set <code>a</code> to zero and <code>b </code>to the position of the column in the table, e.g. <code>td:nth-child(2) { text-align: right; }</code> to right-align the second column.</li>
    <li>If the table does use a {{htmlattrxref("colspan", "td")}} attribute, the effect can be achieved by combining adequate CSS attribute selectors like <code>[colspan=n]</code>, though this is not trivial.</li>
   </ul>
  </li>
  <li>To achieve the same effect as the <code>char</code> value, in CSS3, you can use the value of the {{htmlattrxref("char", "col")}} as the value of the {{cssxref("text-align")}} property {{unimplemented_inline}}.</li>
 </ul>
 </div>
 </dd>
</dl>

<dl>
 <dt>{{htmlattrdef("bgcolor")}} {{Non-standard_inline}}</dt>
 <dd>This attribute defines the background color of each cell of the column. It is one of the 6-digit hexadecimal code as defined in <a class="external" href="https://www.w3.org/Graphics/Color/sRGB">sRGB</a>, prefixed by a '#'. One of the sixteen predefined color strings may be used:
 <table style="width: 80%;">
  <tbody>
   <tr>
    <td style="background-color: black; width: 24px; height: 24px; border-width: 1px; border-color: black; border-style: solid;"> </td>
    <td><code>black</code> = "#000000"</td>
    <td style="background-color: green; width: 24px; height: 24px; border-width: 1px; border-color: black; border-style: solid;"> </td>
    <td><code>green</code> = "#008000"</td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
    <td style="background-color: silver; width: 24px; height: 24px; border-width: 1px; border-color: black; border-style: solid;"> </td>
    <td><code>silver</code> = "#C0C0C0"</td>
    <td style="background-color: lime; width: 24px; height: 24px; border-width: 1px; border-color: black; border-style: solid;"> </td>
    <td><code>lime</code> = "#00FF00"</td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
    <td style="background-color: gray; width: 24px; height: 24px; border-width: 1px; border-color: black; border-style: solid;"> </td>
    <td><code>gray</code> = "#808080"</td>
    <td style="background-color: olive; width: 24px; height: 24px; border-width: 1px; border-color: black; border-style: solid;"> </td>
    <td><code>olive</code> = "#808000"</td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
    <td style="background-color: white; width: 24px; height: 24px; border-width: 1px; border-color: black; border-style: solid;"> </td>
    <td><code>white</code> = "#FFFFFF"</td>
    <td style="background-color: yellow; width: 24px; height: 24px; border-width: 1px; border-color: black; border-style: solid;"> </td>
    <td><code>yellow</code> = "#FFFF00"</td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
    <td style="background-color: maroon; width: 24px; height: 24px; border-width: 1px; border-color: black; border-style: solid;"> </td>
    <td><code>maroon</code> = "#800000"</td>
    <td style="background-color: navy; width: 24px; height: 24px; border-width: 1px; border-color: black; border-style: solid;"> </td>
    <td><code>navy</code> = "#000080"</td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
    <td style="background-color: red; width: 24px; height: 24px; border-width: 1px; border-color: black; border-style: solid;"> </td>
    <td><code>red</code> = "#FF0000"</td>
    <td style="background-color: blue; width: 24px; height: 24px; border-width: 1px; border-color: black; border-style: solid;"> </td>
    <td><code>blue</code> = "#0000FF"</td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
    <td style="background-color: purple; width: 24px; height: 24px; border-width: 1px; border-color: black; border-style: solid;"> </td>
    <td><code>purple</code> = "#800080"</td>
    <td style="background-color: teal; width: 24px; height: 24px; border-width: 1px; border-color: black; border-style: solid;"> </td>
    <td><code>teal</code> = "#008080"</td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
    <td style="background-color: fuchsia; width: 24px; height: 24px; border-width: 1px; border-color: black; border-style: solid;"> </td>
    <td><code>fuchsia</code> = "#FF00FF"</td>
    <td style="background-color: aqua; width: 24px; height: 24px; border-width: 1px; border-color: black; border-style: solid;"> </td>
    <td><code>aqua</code> = "#00FFFF"</td>
   </tr>
  </tbody>
 </table>

 <div class="note"><strong>Usage note:</strong> Do not use this attribute, as it is non-standard and only implemented in some versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer: the {{HTMLElement("col")}} element should be styled using <a href="/en-US/docs/CSS">CSS</a>. To give a similar effect to the <strong>bgcolor</strong> attribute, use the <a href="/en-US/docs/CSS">CSS</a> property {{cssxref("background-color")}}, on the relevant {{HTMLElement("td")}} elements.</div>
 </dd>
</dl>

<dl>
 <dt>{{htmlattrdef("char")}} {{Deprecated_inline("html4.01")}}, {{obsolete_inline("html5")}}</dt>
 <dd>This attribute is used to set the character to align the cells in a column on. Typical values for this include a period (.) when attempting to align numbers or monetary values. If {{htmlattrxref("align", "col")}} is not set to <code>char</code>, this attribute is ignored.
 <div class="note"><strong>Note: </strong>Do not use this attribute as it is obsolete (and not supported) in the latest standard. To achieve the same effect as the {{htmlattrxref("char", "col")}}, in CSS3, you can use the character set using the {{htmlattrxref("char", "col")}} attribute as the value of the {{cssxref("text-align")}} property {{unimplemented_inline}}.</div>
 </dd>
</dl>

<dl>
 <dt>{{htmlattrdef("charoff")}} {{Deprecated_inline("html4.01")}}, {{obsolete_inline("html5")}}</dt>
 <dd>This attribute is used to indicate the number of characters to offset the column data from the alignment characters specified by the <strong>char</strong> attribute.
 <div class="note"><strong>Note: </strong>Do not use this attribute as it is obsolete (and not supported) in the latest standard.</div>
 </dd>
</dl>

<dl>
 <dt>{{htmlattrdef("span")}}</dt>
 <dd>This attribute contains a positive integer indicating the number of consecutive columns the <code>&lt;col&gt;</code> element spans. If not present, its default value is <code>1</code>.</dd>
</dl>

<dl>
 <dt>{{htmlattrdef("valign")}} {{Deprecated_inline("html4.01")}}, {{obsolete_inline("html5")}}</dt>
 <dd>This attribute specifies the vertical alignment of the text within each cell of the column. Possible values for this attribute are:
 <ul>
  <li><code>baseline</code>, which will put the text as close to the bottom of the cell as it is possible, but align it on the <a class="external" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseline_%28typography%29">baseline</a> of the characters instead of the bottom of them. If characters are all of the size, this has the same effect as <code>bottom</code>.</li>
  <li><code>bottom</code>, which will put the text as close to the bottom of the cell as it is possible;</li>
  <li><code>middle</code>, which will center the text in the cell;</li>
  <li>and <code>top</code>, which will put the text as close to the top of the cell as it is possible.</li>
 </ul>

 <div class="note"><strong>Note: </strong>Do not use this attribute as it is obsolete (and not supported) in the latest standard:

 <ul>
  <li>Do not try to set the {{cssxref("vertical-align")}} property on a selector giving a {{HTMLElement("col")}} element. Because {{HTMLElement("td")}} elements are not descendant of the {{HTMLElement("col")}} element, they won't inherit it.</li>
  <li>If the table doesn't use a {{htmlattrxref("colspan", "td")}} attribute, use the <code>td:nth-child(an+b)</code> CSS selector where a is the total number of the columns in the table and b is the ordinal position of the column in the table. Only after this selector the {{cssxref("vertical-align")}} property can be used.</li>
  <li>If the table does use a {{htmlattrxref("colspan", "td")}} attribute, the effect can be achieved by combining adequate CSS attribute selectors like <code>[colspan=n]</code>, though this is not trivial.</li>
 </ul>
 </div>
 </dd>
</dl>

<dl>
 <dt>{{htmlattrdef("width")}} {{obsolete_inline("html5")}}</dt>
 <dd>This attribute specifies a default width for each column in the current column group. In addition to the standard pixel and percentage values, this attribute might take the special form <code>0*</code>, which means that the width of each column in the group should be the minimum width necessary to hold the column's contents. Relative widths such as <code>0.5*</code> also can be used.</dd>
</dl>

<h2 id="Exemplo">Exemplo</h2>

<p>Please see the {{HTMLElement("table")}} page for examples on <code>&lt;col&gt;</code>.</p>

<h2 id="Especificação">Especificação</h2>

<table class="standard-table">
 <thead>
  <tr>
   <th scope="col">Specification</th>
   <th scope="col">Status</th>
   <th scope="col">Comment</th>
  </tr>
 </thead>
 <tbody>
  <tr>
   <td>{{SpecName('HTML WHATWG', 'tables.html#the-col-element', '&lt;col&gt;')}}</td>
   <td>{{Spec2('HTML WHATWG')}}</td>
   <td> </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <td>{{SpecName('HTML5 W3C', 'tabular-data.html#the-col-element', '&lt;col&gt;')}}</td>
   <td>{{Spec2('HTML5 W3C')}}</td>
   <td> </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <td>{{SpecName('HTML4.01', 'struct/tables.html#h-11.2.4.2', '&lt;col&gt;')}}</td>
   <td>{{Spec2('HTML4.01')}}</td>
   <td>Initial definition</td>
  </tr>
 </tbody>
</table>

<h2 id="Browser_compatibility">Compatibilidade com navegadores</h2>



<p>{{Compat("html.elements.col")}}</p>

<h2 id="Veja_Também">Veja Também</h2>

<ul>
 <li>Other table-related HTML elements: {{HTMLElement("caption")}}, {{HTMLElement("colgroup")}}, {{HTMLElement("table")}}, {{HTMLElement("tbody")}}, {{HTMLElement("td")}}, {{HTMLElement("tfoot")}}, {{HTMLElement("th")}}, {{HTMLElement("thead")}}, {{HTMLElement("tr")}};</li>
 <li>CSS properties and pseudo-classes that may be specially useful to style the <code>&lt;col&gt;</code> element:
  <ul>
   <li>the {{cssxref("width")}} property to control the width of the column;</li>
   <li>the {{cssxref(":nth-child")}} pseudo-class to set the alignment on the cells of the column;</li>
   <li>the {{cssxref("text-align")}} property to align all cells content on the same character, like '.'.</li>
  </ul>
 </li>
</ul>