Tables were added to HTML after the language's earlier feature set.

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"Tables were added to HTML after the language’s earlier feature set."

W3C's 1996 HTML 3.2 announcement says the new release would add widely deployed features including tables while remaining backward-compatible with HTML 2.0.

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Source title The W3 Consortium Announces HTML 3.2

Source authors World Wide Web Consortium

Source year 1996

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