Presenting Content with Tables

Tables are a powerful tool for presenting tabular data and for laying out text and graphics on a page.

Many designers use tables to lay out web pages. Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 provides two ways to view and manipulate tables: Standard mode, in which tables are presented as a grid of rows and columns, and Layout mode, which allows you to draw, resize, and move boxes on the page while still using tables for the underlying structure (see Laying Out Pages in Layout Mode).

Note: You can also lay out your pages using CSS positioning (see Laying Out Pages with CSS).

This chapter contains the following sections:

• About tables
• Inserting a table and adding content
• Importing and exporting tabular data
• Selecting table elements
• Using Expanded Tables mode for easier table editing
• Formatting tables and cells
• Resizing tables, columns, and rows
• Adding and removing rows and columns
• Splitting and merging cells
• Copying, pasting, and deleting cells
• Nesting tables
• Sorting tables

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