AOLPress - Working With Tables

Tables

Tables are very useful for formatting and organising your web pages.

To insert a table first place the cursor at the point of insertion. Then select TABLE > CREATE TABLE and the following dialog will be presented:

The Table Dialog:

• Rows - How many rows do you want
• Columns - How may do you want
• Visible Borders - Do you want to see the table grid
• Border Size - Width of the borders
• Cell Margins - Spacing - the distance between individual cells
• Cell Margins - Padding - the distance between the cell border and where the content starts
• Caption - Title or Explanation of the tables contents can be set for above or below

   

Make your settings and then click OK

  This is how the table will look when inserted - not very large at the moment

 

Now lets look at organising/formatting the page in this next example I've pasted in some text and added a picture to the two top cells - borders are set to visible.

The next example shows the same table but with borders set to not visible

Without going into HTML there are not many options in the Tables menu for formatting the table itself. Most modern editors allow for the sizing of individual cells etc. I will leave you to sus-out the option in the Table menu. You can use a table to organise your page - the main page on this site uses a table to organise the page content.