You can use free layout tables and cells so that you can lay out
your Web page in a more visual way. For example, you can control the exact
placement of an image on the page when it is placed in a cell of a free layout
table.
Follow these steps to use a free layout table on a page:
- Create a Web page using the New Web Page wizard; when you complete
the wizard, the new page will automatically open in Page Designer. Click on
the Design tab.
- From the main menu, click and click on the page
where you want the table to be inserted. The table is created on the page.
Tip: You can also drag and drop a free layout table from
the HTML Tags drawer of the palette.
- To make changes to the table:
- Drag the edges of the table to increase its size.
- To change other attributes for the table (such as size in pixels, background
color, and cell padding), select the table, right-click and choose Properties.
The Properties view appears.
- To add text to the table, drag and drop a Text Cell from
the palette. Type text inside the cell.
- To make changes to the cell:
- Drag the edges of the cell to change its position.
- Drag the resize tracker of the edges of the cell to change its size.
- Select the cell, and modify its attributes in the Properties view.
- Drag the components you from the Palette view to the appropriate
cells within the table. If you drag a component and drop it outside of a text
cell, a text cell is inserted automatically to hold the component.
- You can drag a component to the inside of another text cell, for example,
you can drag a bulleted list from the HTML Tags drawer of the Palette view
and drop in to a cell and then drag an image and drop it to another cell.
- You can also drag a component to outside of a text cell, or a free layout
table. With that, a text cell is inserted automatically to hold the component.
Note: You cannot drag the following components to a free layout table: Row, Column, Layout box. Layout boxes can be inserted in a page, but they
are not included in the free layout table.
- If you want to treat the free layout table as a standard HTML table,
select Table Change table type, Standard
table from the main menu.
As you design your page in a free layout table, you can preview the
page at any time by choosing .