1. HTML4 tables
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## 1. HTML4 tables

The corresponding support code is contained in ``XXE_install_dir`/addon/config/common/xhtml.jar`.

Procedure 3.1. Procedure

1. Add this snippet at the top of your CSS style sheet:

       @import url(xxe-config:common/css/xhtml_table.imp);

   If you use a namespace (e.g. `http://acme.com/ns`) for all the elements defined in your schema, including for table elements, add this snippet instead. This is not strictly needed but this will speed up the rendering of XML elements on screen:

       @namespace "http://acme.com/ns";
       @import url(xxe-config:common/css/xhtml_table.imp);

2. Add this snippet in your custom configuration for XXE. In the example below, you have chosen to prefix all the custom commands declared in your configuration using prefix "`my.`".

       <command name="my.tableEdit">
         <class>com.xmlmind.xmleditext.xhtml.table.HTMLTableEdit</class>
       </command>

   After that, you can reference the above table commands in your custom menu, custom tool bar or custom bindings. Example:

       <menu label="M_yDoc">
         <item label="Insert Column _Before"
               icon="xxe-config:common/icons/insertColumnBefore.png"
               command="my.tableEdit" parameter="insertColumnBefore"/>
         ...

3. Add this other snippet to your custom configuration. Doing so will allow you to resize a table column by dragging its column separator.

       <binding>
         <appEvent name="resize-table-column" />
         <command name="my.resizeTableColumn"
                  parameter="%{resizedColumn} %{columnCount}
                             %{oldColumnWidths} %{newColumnWidths}" />
       </binding>

       <command name="my.resizeTableColumn">
         <class>com.xmlmind.xmleditext.xhtml.table.ResizeTableColumn</class>
       </command>

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