Table Cell Formatting dialog

Cell Tab

  • Width: Set the width of the table in measure or percentage. Equivalent to the CSS width property.
  • Height: Set the height of the table in measure or percentage. Equivalent to the CSS height property.
  • Vertical Align: Specify how text is vertically aligned in the cell: top, middle, bottom or baseline. With the baseline value all the table data share the same baseline. Often this has the same effect as the bottom value. However, if the fonts are in different sizes, baseline looks better.

Type Tab

  • General group:
    • Font: Select the font used to display text, equivalent to the CSS font-family property.
    • Size: Enter the size in measure, named size or percentage, equivalent to the CSS font-size property.
    • Color: Select a named font color as defined in the Colors Editor, create a new color or enter a color manually for text to be displayed. The color value must be a valid HTML Color Name, or a valid HTML Hex Color. Equivalent to the CSS color property.
  • Spacing group:
    • Letter Spacing: Set the space between characters in a text in measure or percentage. Equivalent to the CSS letter-spacing property.
    • Word Spacing: Set the space between each word in a text in measure or percentage. Equivalent to the CSS word-spacing property.
    • Whitespace: Specify how to handle white spaces inside of an element. Equivalent to the CSS white-space property. See CSS White-Space for details.
  • Style group: Check any option to apply the selected style to text within the element:
    • Bold: Sets the font-weight to 700.
    • Italic: Sets the font-style to italic.
    • Underline: Sets the text-decoration to underline.
    • Strikethrough: Sets the text-decoration to line-through.
    • Subscript: Sets the vertical-align to super.
    • Superscript: Sets the vertical-align to sub.
    • Capitalize: Sets the text-transform to capitalize.
    • Uppercase: Sets thetext-transformto uppercase.
    • Lowercase: Sets thetext-transformto lowercase.
    • Small-caps: Sets the font-variant to small-caps.

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 CSS border property.
    • Top, Left, Bottom, Right: Set padding for each side. Equivalent to the CSS padding-left, padding-top, padding-right and padding-bottom properties.

Border Tab

  • Same for all sides: Defines the border properties for all sides using the Top properties. Equivalent to the borderproperty.
  • Top, Left, Bottom, Right: Each group defines the following properties:
    • Width: Specify the thickness of the border. Equivalent to the CSS border-widthproperty.
    • Style: Specify the style of the border such as solid, dashed or dotted. Equivalent to the CSS 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 CSS border-color property.

Background Tab

  • General group:
    • Color: Specify the color of the table cell background.  The color value must be a valid HTML Color Name, or a valid HTML Hex Color. Equivalent to the CSS background-color property.
  • Background image group:
    • Source: click the Select Image button to select an image via the Select Image dialog. Equivalent to the CSS background property.
    • Size: select auto, cover or contain (for an explanation see http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css3_pr_background-size.asp), or type the width and height of the image in a measure (e.g. 80px 60px) or as a percentage of the parent element's size (e.g. 50% 50%). Equivalent to the CSS background-size property.
    • Position: select the position for the background-image. Equivalent to the CSS background-position property.