Working With Tables

A table can be used for several different purposes on a web page. If you have spent much time in a word processing program, then you are probably familiar with tables for organizing text and graphics or presenting data in a tabular way (similar to a spreadsheet).

On a web page, you can use a table for the same purpose. In addition, you can use it for its more common use on the web pages, and that is to structure content. On a typical web page, text, graphics, and other content appears in a free-flowing way. The text and images wrap, and one item appears after the next. There is no way to control where items appear on the web page, and this is where tables become useful.

Using a table, you can place text or images in one cell and align it accordingly, and then place more text or images in another cell and align it accordingly. If, for example, you want to place text beside an image, or place text, graphics, and other types of content side-by-side or one on top of the other, then you would use a table.

You can perform the following tasks with a table:

• Adding a Table

• Resizing a Table

• Changing the Width of Columns in a Table

• Changing the Height of Rows in a Table

• Adding Rows or Columns to a Table

• Deleting Rows and Columns in a Table

• Splitting and Merging Cells in a Table

• Changing the Properties of a Table

• Changing the Properties of Table Cells

• Deleting a Table