Table Dialog Interface Details
The table dialog contains the following items:
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Rows: Allows you to choose the number of rows you want in
your table.
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Columns: Allows you to choose the number of columns for your
table.
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Border: Allows you to set the border width of the table. You
can select a width of 0 if you don't want your table to
have a border (this is often useful for creating columns on your page).
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Cell Padding: Allows you set the amount of
"padding," the amount of space in your cell around any object
that the cell contains. Padding is set in number of pixels.
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Cell Spacing: Allows you to set the amount of distance
between table cells in pixels.
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Width: Allows you to set the width of your table. You can
use the menu button to select a width in either pixels or percent of
screen width.
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Height: Allows you to set the height of your table. You can
use the menu button to select a height in either pixels or percent of
screen height.
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Alignment: Allows you to align the table with the left or
right margins, or put it in the center of the page. For left and right
alignment, the text flows around the table. You can also choose
Default, which aligns the table with the left margin, but prevents the
text from flowing around the table. Note: text flow around
tables is not WYSIWYG in Cosmo Create.
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Caption Placement menu button: Allows you to place your
table caption either above or below the table.
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Default button: Resets all the fields to their default
values: 2 rows, 2 columns, border of 1, and so on.
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Buttons for
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Adding rows or columns before and after the current row
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Deleting the current row or column
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Bringing up the Row Attributes and Cell Attributes
dialogs, which allow you to modify the attributes of individual rows or
cells in your table
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Action buttons: Apply applies the information
currently displayed in the dialog to the selected table; Insert
inserts a table into your HTML document with the attributes displayed
in the dialog; Close dismisses the dialog; Help
launches the help for the dialog.
For the most part, Cosmo Create displays a table in a WYSIWYG (what you
see is what you get) manner. In all the cases noted below, while the
feature is not displayed in Cosmo Create as it is in a browser, the
HTML is correct, and everything appears as you wish when you look at it
in your HTML browser.
The following table-related features in Cosmo Create are not WYSIWYG:
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When you select left or right alignment, the text is not displayed as
flowing around the table. Choose File > Preview to see
how the table appears in the browser.
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Table height
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Cell alignment
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Cell header
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Cell nowrap (available through the Edit Cell
dialog)
To turn off WYSIWYG table display completely, choose View > WYSIWYG
Tables in the main view.
For further information...
See the Table Row Attributes or Table Cell Attributes reference card for a
description of that dialog.