I am trying to follow a php script that uses a a lot of nested tables. My question is when you have several opening table tags and then later you have a closing tag does the first </table> close the first <table> or the last.

Not the best wording there. Let's do it this way where the work content could be several lines long. Throw a few td's into the content section.

<table1> content <table2> content <table3> content </table?>

Which table is closed with the <table?> tag?


This confusing question is a great illustration of why not to do it this way.

table 3 gets closed the others remain open.

To nest tables you need something like

<table>
<tr><td>
<table> <tr><td></td></tr></table> // table 2
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<table> <tr><td></td></tr></table> // table 3
</td></tr>
</table> // closes 1st table

Ibbo