Borders and Cell Spacing These options can be accessed by right clicking on the table and selecting properties. From the dialog box you can set the border width and cell spacing. Changing the border width only affects the outside border. Changing the border to 0px does not hide the border, to hide the border, you will need to set the border color to the same as the background color. For changing border colors you can either use the color selector or enter a HEX value for a color, a list of color codes can be found by Click Here. Cell spacing changes the amount of space between the the cells, as of now this function does not work very well. - Table with 3px border, internal borders cannot be changed and are 1px. Backgrounds With the tables, you have 3 ways choices for backgrounds, under table properties, you can apply a solid color to the entire table or select a image to apply to the entire table. The third option is the fill bucket which is under the paragraph section in the page editor, this will fill only the selected cells. | | | | Solid background | Background Image | Background Image, with solid color background | Using the Fill bucket, solid color | | This entire table has a background image, and uses the the fill bucket to fill the explanations below each table example, with a border color of white. Background images are repeated, which is what is happening in the examples with the animated GIF's. | Solid background, with background image, and using the fill bucket |
Table Nesting This is what you see above for the backgrounds example. A 4x4 table with 2x2 tables nested inside some of the rows. This can get quite complex and generally you don't want to nest more than 2 tables deep. Merging Columns and Rows Also seen in the background exmample above, the third and forth row, and second, third, and forth columns are all merged to form one cell. Merging cells deletes all contents of the cells merged. Cell Padding This is the distance from the cell wall to the start of your content, as seen in the example above for backgrounds, the cell padding is 2px, default padding is 8px. Aligning Tables To align a table left, center, or right, place your cursor directly before the table, this is generally the left edge about the middle, and select your alignment choice. Just clicking on the table clicking alignment does not work, even though it appears it might. With tables, you float the table left or right so text can flow around them. |