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Styling a table
Just as other elements, tables can be styled in two ways:
l With local formatting. This means styling the table directly, using the Formatting dialog.
l Via Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). In a style sheet, style rules are declared for
elements with different HTML tags, ID's and classes.
These two methods are described below. See "Styling and formatting" on page785 for
background information about these two methods.
Selecting a table, row or cell
There are several ways to select a table or row:
l Click in the table or row. Then, in the breadcrumbs (see "Selecting an element" on
page669) click table to select the table, or tr to select the row.
l Right-click a cell and from the shortcut menu, choose Table > Select or Row > Select.
l Click in a cell and then use the toolbar: click the Select Table button or click the black
triangle next to that button and then click Select Table or Select Row.
Selecting one cell is easy: just click in it.
Tip
Use the Styles pane to see which styles apply to the currently selected table, row or cell.
Styling a column
In HTML, column elements don't exist, only tables, rows and cells.
To make cells look like a column, make sure that they are positioned underneath each other -
insert empty cells if needed -, and then style the cells as usual.
Via the Formatting dialog
The Formatting dialog allows you to change the font, font size and color (see "Fonts" on
page823), the borders (see "Border" on page817), the margins or cell padding (the distance
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