Table Formatting

The Table Formatting dialog defines how tables react

Table Tab

• General group:
• • Width: Set the width of the box in measure or percentage. Equivalent to the width property.
  • Height: Set the height of the box in measure or percentage. Equivalent to the height property.
  • Angle: Set the rotation angle of the box in clockwise degrees. Equivalent to the transform:rotate property.
  • Corner radius: Set the radius of rounded border corners in measure or percentage. Equivalent to the border-radius property.
  • Display: Use the drop-down or type in the value for how to display the box. Equivalent to the display property.
  • Overflow: Use the drop-down or type in the value for how to handle overflow (text that does not fit in the current size of the box). Equivalent to the overflow property.
• Text wrap group:
• • Float: Use the drop-down or type in the value for how to float the box, if the box is not in an absolute position. Equivalent to the float property.
  • Clear: Use the drop-down or type in the value for clearing pre-existing alignments. Equivalent to the clear property.
• Positioning:
• • Position: Use the drop-down or type in the value for the type of positioning for the box. Equivalent to the position property.
  • Top: Set the vertical offset between this box and its parent's top position. Equivalent to the top property.
  • Left: Set the horizontal offset between this box and its parent's left position. Equivalent to the left property.
  • Bottom: Set the vertical offset between this box and its parent's bottom position. Equivalent to the bottom property.
  • Right: Set the horizontal offset between this box and its parent's left position. Equivalent to the right property.
  • Z-index: Set the z-index of the box, defining on which layer it appears.  Equivalent to the z-index property.
• Breaks group:
  • Before: Specifies how to handle page breaks before the element. Equivalent to the page-break-before property.
  • Inside: Specifies whether to accept page breaks within the paragraph. Equivalent to the page-break-inside property.
  • After: Specifies how to handle page breaks after the element. Equivalent to the page-break-after property.
  • Widows: Specifies how to handle widows within the table (rows appearing alone on the next page if the table does not fit on the current one). Equivalent to the widows property. Widows and orphans are ignored if the page-break-inside property is set to avoid.
  • Orphans: Specifies how to handle orphans within the tables (rows appearing alone at the end of a page if the table does not fit on the current one). Equivalent to the orphans property.

Spacing Tab

• Padding group: Defines padding (spacing inside the element) in measure or percentage:
• • All sides: Check to set all padding to use the Top value. Equivalent to the border property.
  • Top, Left, Bottom, Right: Set padding for each side. Equivalent to the border-left, border-top, border-right and border-bottom properties.
• Margin group: Defines margins (spacing outside the element) in measure or percentage:
• • All sides: Check to set all margins to use the Top value. Equivalent to the margin property.
  • Top, Left, Bottom, Right: Set the margin for each side. Equivalent to the margin-left, margin-top, margin-right and margin-bottom properties.

Border Tab

• Same for all sides: Defines the border properties for all sides using the Top properties. Equivalent to the border property.
• Top, Left, Bottom, Right: Each group defines the following properties:
• • Width: Specify the thickness of the border. Equivalent to the border-width property.
  • Style: Specify the style of the border such as solid, dashed or dotted. Equivalent to the border-style property.
  • Color: Specify the color of the border.  The color value must be a valid HTML Color Name, or a valid HTML Hex Color. Equivalent to the border-color property.

Background Tab

• General group:
• • Color: Specify the color of the box background.  The color value must be a valid HTML Color Name, or a valid HTML Hex Color. Equivalent to the background-color property.