Table properties and formatting
You can format an entire table using table formatting options.
When you create or edit a table, the Table Editor displays table editing options:
- Title
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The text that is shown as a tooltip when the mouse hovers over the table.
- Table: Yes
- Row: No
- Column: No
- Cell: No
- Caption
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The caption displayed above the table.
- Table: Yes
- Row: No
- Column: No
- Cell: No
- Summary
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A longer description of the table.
- Table: Yes
- Row: No
- Column: No
- Cell: No
- Width
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The width of the table, column or cell:
- For a table, this is a percentage (e.g. 60%) of the width of the page. For a column or cell, this is a percentage of the width of the table.
- A specific number of pixels (e.g. 250). To specify a number of pixels, select the Other setting.
- Leave blank for auto sizing.
- Table: Yes
- Row: No
- Column: Yes
- Cell: Yes
- Height
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The height of the table, row, or cell:
- For a table, this is a percentage of the format area (e.g. 60%). For a row, or cell, this is a percentage of the table
- A specific number of pixels (e.g. 250). To specify a number of pixels, select the Other setting.
- Leave blank for auto sizing. If you leave this field blank, your browser will adjust the height to the contents of the cell/table.
- Table: Yes
- Row: No
- Column: Yes
- Cell: Yes
- Cell spacing
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The spacing around the table cells.
- Table: Yes
- Row: No
- Column: No
- Cell: No
- Cell padding
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The padding between cell contents and cell borders.
- Table: Yes
- Row: No
- Column: No
- Cell: No
- Horizontal alignment
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This is the alignment of the contents of cells in the table (left, right, center)
- Table: Yes
- Row: Yes
- Column: Yes
- Cell: Yes
- Border size
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The size of the table border. To remove the table border, set the size to "0".
- Table: Yes
- Row: No
- Column: No
- Cell: No
- Border style
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The style of the table border.
- Table: Yes
- Row: No
- Column: No
- Cell: No
- Border color
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The color of the border. Select Custom color to select a color other than the listed colors.
- Table: Yes
- Row: No
- Column: No
- Cell: No
- Background color
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The background color of the table, row, column or cell. Select Custom color to select a color other than the listed colors.
- Table: Yes
- Row: Yes
- Column: Yes
- Cell: Yes
- Style
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If the SDL Tridion Sites system administrator has predefined styles for your system, you can select a predefined style for the table, row, column or cell.
- Table: Yes
- Row: No
- Column: No
- Cell: No
- Body/Header/Footer
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This is a row setting that allows you to apply a body, header or footer setting to a row in the table.
- Table: No
- Row: Yes
- Column: No
- Cell: No
- Vertical alignment
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The vertical alignment of the contents of a column, row, or cell (top, middle, bottom).
- Table: No
- Row: Yes
- Column: Yes
- Cell: Yes
- Type of information
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Select the type of information contained in the selected cell(s):
- Header is for heading text
- Data is for content
- Table: No
- Row: No
- Column: No
- Cell: Yes
- ID
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If the Type of information is "Header" you can add an ID attribute to a single selected cell.
- Table: No
- Row: No
- Column: No
- Cell: Yes
- Text
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The text contained in a single selected cell.
- Table: No
- Row: No
- Column: No
- Cell: Yes
- Abbreviation
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If the Type of information is "Header" you can add an abbreviation attribute to a single selected cell.
- Table: No
- Row: No
- Column: No
- Cell: Yes
- Scope
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If the Type of information is "Header" for one or more cells you can select whether the header is for a row or for a column.
- Table: No
- Row: No
- Column: No
- Cell: Yes
- Axis
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If the Type of information is "Header" for one or more cells you can categorize cell information.
- Table: No
- Row: No
- Column: No
- Cell: Yes