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CHAPTER 8
Presenting Content
with Tables
with Tables
Tables are a powerful tool for presenting tabular data and for laying out text and graphics on
a page.
a page.
Many designers use tables to lay out web pages. Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 provides two
ways to view and manipulate tables: Standard mode, in which tables are presented as a grid of
rows and columns, and Layout mode, which allows you to draw, resize, and move boxes on
the page while still using tables for the underlying structure (see
ways to view and manipulate tables: Standard mode, in which tables are presented as a grid of
rows and columns, and Layout mode, which allows you to draw, resize, and move boxes on
the page while still using tables for the underlying structure (see
).
This chapter contains the following sections:
About tables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .234
Inserting a table and adding content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .235
Importing and exporting tabular data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .237
Selecting table elements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .238
Using Expanded Tables mode for easier table editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Formatting tables and cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .243
Resizing tables, columns, and rows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Adding and removing rows and columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Splitting and merging cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
Copying, pasting, and deleting cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .253
Nesting tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .255
Sorting tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .256
Inserting a table and adding content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .235
Importing and exporting tabular data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .237
Selecting table elements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .238
Using Expanded Tables mode for easier table editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Formatting tables and cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .243
Resizing tables, columns, and rows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Adding and removing rows and columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Splitting and merging cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
Copying, pasting, and deleting cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .253
Nesting tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .255
Sorting tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .256
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You can also lay out your pages using CSS positioning (see