Tables are a way of displaying data in rows and columns, much like a spreadsheet. You can make tables in Composer almost as easily as you can make them in your word processor. If you already have the data in a spreadsheet or a database, you may want to look and see if your application supports saving as an HTML table.
- Displaying data in tables
- A table is a paragraph-level format: they go on their own line. Place the cursor where you want your table to be, pull down the “Table” menu, and choose “Insert Table…”.
- Tables for page layout
- Tables can themselves contain tables. As in your word processor, table cells can be joined to make a cell that is wider than one column or taller than one row. Table cells also can resize themselves both vertically and horizontally to fit what they contain, whether it’s an image or a paragraph. Because of this, tables have become very useful for page layout as well as for displaying tabular data. Tables also have problems when used for page…