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Chapter 3

Tables and Page Layout

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• Understand page layout• Design a Web page using tables• Create a table structure• Modify a table structure• Describe HTML table tags• Add content to a table

Objectives

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• Add a border to a table• Format table content• Format a table• Add borders to images• Create head content

Objectives

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Project – Formatted Tables with Images

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• Plan the Web pages• Determine when to insert tables• Lay out Web pages with tables• Determine when to add borders• Identify cells to merge• Plan head content

General Project Guidelines

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• If necessary, click Window on the Application bar and then click Insert to display the Insert bar

• Click the Layout tab to display the Insert bar Layout category

Displaying the Insert Bar and Selecting the Layout Tab

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Layout Tab

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• Click the Table button on the Layout tab to display the Table dialog box

• Type the desired number of rows and columns, the table width, border thickness, cell padding, and cell spacing in the appropriate text boxes

• Type the desired summary in the Summary text box

• Click the OK button to insert the table into the Document window

Inserting a Table

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Inserting a Table

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Property Inspector Table Features

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• Click in row 1, column 1 to place the insertion point in the first cell of the table

• Click <table> in the tag selector to select the table and to display handles on the lower and right borders of the table

• Click the Align button in the Property inspector and then click Center to center the table on the page

Selecting and Centering a Table

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Selecting and Centering a Table

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• Select the cells of which you want to change the vertical alignment

• Click the Vert button in the Property inspector to display the Vert pop-up menu and then click the desired vertical alignment option

Changing Vertical Alignment

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Changing Vertical Alignment

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• Select the cells in the column of which you want to change the width

• Click the W box in the Property inspector, type the desired width, and then press the ENTER key to set the width for the selected column

• Click anywhere in the table to deselect the column

Specifying Column Width

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Specifying Column Width

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• Click <table> in the tag selector to select the table• Click the Table text box and then type the desired ID text• Press the ENTER key to add the table ID

Adding a Table ID

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• If necessary, click in the cell in the links table to make it the active table

• Click <table> in the tag selector to select the table• Double-click the W box in the Property inspector

to select the width value• Type the desired width and then press the ENTER

key

Adjusting the Table Width

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Adjusting the Table Width

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• Drag to select the two cells in the table to merge• Click the ‘Merges selected cells using spans’

button to merge the cells

Merging Two Cells in a Table

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• Click Edit on the Application bar, and then click Preferences to display the Preferences dialog box

• Click Accessibility in the Category list to display the accessibility options

• If necessary, click the check boxes to deselect Form objects, Frames, Media, and Images, which disables the Image Tag Accessibility Attributes dialog box

• Click the OK button

Disabling the Image Tag Accessibility Attributes Dialog Box

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Disabling the Image Tag Accessibility Attributes Dialog Box

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• Click the Expand Panels button to expand the panel groups, and then click the Assets tab to display the assets for this Web site

• If necessary, click the Images button and the Site option button in the Assets panel to display the images for this Web site

• Position the insertion point where you wish to insert the image

• Drag the desired image from the Assets panel to the insertion point

Adding Images to a Table

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• Change the image width and height in the W and H boxes, respectively, and then press the ENTER key

• Enter the desired image ID in the ID text box• Enter the desired Alt text in the Alt box

Adding Images to a Table

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Adding Images to a Table

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• Click to select the image of which you want to add a border

• In the Border text box, type the desired border thickness

• Click the table tag in the tag selector to select the table

• Enter the desired border thickness in the Border text box, and then press ENTER to add a border to the table

Adding Image Borders and a Table Border

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Adding Image Borders and a Table Border

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• Meta• Keywords• Description• Refresh• Base• Link

Head Content Elements

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• Open the desired page• Click Insert on the Application bar, point to HTML,

point to Head Tags on the HTML submenu, and then point to Keywords on the Head Tags submenu

• Click the Keywords command to display the Keywords dialog box

• Type the desired keywords in the Keywords text box, separating each one by a comma

Adding Keywords and a Description to a Web Page

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• Click the OK button to add the keywords to the head tag and close the Keywords dialog box

• Click Insert on the Application bar, point to HTML, point to Head Tags on the HTML submenu, and then click Description on the Head Tags submenu to open the Description dialog box

• Type the desired description in the Description text box to describe the Web page

• Click the OK button to close the Description dialog box

Adding Keywords and a Description to a Web Page

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Adding Keywords and a Description to a Web Page

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• Publishing and maintaining your site using Dreamweaver involves the following steps:– Using the Site Setup dialog box to enter the FTP

information– Specifying the Web server to which you want to

publish your Web site– Connecting to the Web server and uploading the files– Synchronizing the local and remote sites

Publishing a Web Site

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• Understand page layout• Design a Web page using tables• Create a table structure• Modify a table structure• Describe HTML table tags• Add content to a table

Chapter Summary

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• Add a border to a table• Format table content• Format a table• Add borders to images• Create head content

Chapter Summary

Chapter 3 Complete

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