From time to time, you may want to change properties of just one or
a few cells
of a table. You begin with selecting the cell(s) you wish to change.
This is done by press-and-holding the left button when you are at the
corner of the cells to be selected, then drag the mouse (without
releasing the left button) to the opposite corner cell. You should
see the selected cells with their boundaries blackened. Release the
left button to finish the selection step.
Once a cell or cells is/are selected,
the bottom of the Properties pane should change
so you can format the cell(s). See figure 3.5
for an illustration.
If you select a whole row or a whole column, DW recognizes that and
indicates that a row or column is selected.
Figure 3.5:
Row properties (in the Properties pane).
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Besides some controls that we have seen with table properties, you also
find some extra controls.
: this control lets you merge the
entire selection into one cell, or split it apart back to the default
number of columns and rows. Use the left tool to merge, and the right
tool to split.
- ``Horz'': controls the horizontal alignment of contents within
the cell(s)
- ``Vert'': controls the vertical alignment of contents within the
cell(s)
- ``V'' and ``H'': controls the size of the selected cells. Note
that you don't have a drop down box to select ``Pixel'' or
``Percent''. Enter a number implies it is a number of pixels,
use the percent symbol (%) at the end to indicate it is a
ratio (of the width of the entire table).
- ``No Wrap'': checked means text contained in the selected cells do not
wrap around, everything is on the same line.
- ``Header'' : checked means the selected cells become header cells.
Header cells have default properties (boldface and centered).
You typically only want the
first row in a table marked as header cells, but HTML does not
impose any limitations.
Tak Auyeung
2004-03-07
