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Formatting layout tables
You can set width and height, padding and spacing, and more in the
Property inspector.
To format a layout table:
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Click the table tab or edge.
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Choose Window > Properties to open the Property inspector.
3
Choose from the following appearance options:
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To change the width, choose Fixed and type a width in pixels in the box, or
choose Autostretch (see “Setting layout width” on page 179).
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To change the height, specify the height in pixels in the text field.
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To set cell padding, specify the number of pixels in the CellPad field. Cell
padding is the amount of space between the content of a layout cell and the cell
boundary (or wall). When you set this above 0, all the layout cells in the layout
table you have selected will have this spacing. If you see two numbers appear in
the column header area, use the Make Widths Consistant option below.
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To set cell spacing, specify the number of pixels in the CellSpace text field. Cell
spacing is the amount of space between each layout cell. When you set this
above 0, all the layout cells in the layout table you have selected will have this
spacing. If you see two numbers appear in the column header area, use the
Make Widths Consistant option below.
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To clear the height settings for all the cells in the layout table you selected, click
the Clear Height Attributes button. If there are no elements in the table, the
table will collapse completely.
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If you have fixed-width cells in your layout, click the Make Widths Consistent
button. This automatically resets the HTML widths of each cell to match the
content within that cell. For example, if you set the width to 200 pixels, then
added content that stretches the width to 250, you will see these two numbers
displayed in the top bar of the table: 250 in quotes and 200 in parentheses.
Clicking Make Widths Consistent removes the 200-pixel setting and keeps 250.
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To remove spacer images (transparent images that are used to control the
spacing in your layout) from your layout table, click the Remove All Spacers
button. (For more information, see “Using spacer images” on page 181).
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If the layout table you selected is nested within another layout table, click
Remove Nesting to remove the nested layout table without losing any of its
contents. The layout table will disappear and the layout cells and their contents
will become part of the parent table.