Table Formatting dialog

The Table Formatting dialog defines how the table looks and reacts.

Table Tab

• General group:
  • 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.
  • Angle: Set the rotation angle of the table in clockwise degrees. Equivalent to the CSS transform:rotate property.
  • Corner radius: Set the radius of rounded border corners in measure or percentage. Equivalent to the CSS border-radius property.
  • Display: Use the drop-down or type in the value for how to display the table. Equivalent to the CSS 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 CSS overflow property.
• Text wrap group:
  • Float: Use the drop-down or type in the value for how to float the table, if the table is not in an absolute position. Equivalent to the CSS float property.
  • Clear: Use the drop-down or type in the value for clearing pre-existing alignments. Equivalent to the CSS clear property.
• Positioning:
  • Position: Use the drop-down or type in the value for the type of positioning for the table. Equivalent to the CSS position property.
  • Top: Set the vertical offset between this table and its parent's top position. Equivalent to the CSS top property.
  • Left: Set the horizontal offset between this table and its parent's left position. Equivalent to the CSS left property.
  • Bottom: Set the vertical offset between this table and its parent's bottom position. Equivalent to the CSS bottom property.
  • Right: Set the horizontal offset between this table and its parent's left position. Equivalent to the CSS right property.
  • Z-index: Set the z-index of the table. The z-index defines in which order elements appear.  Equivalent to the CSS z-index property.
• Breaks group:
  • Before: Specifies how to handle page breaks before the table. Equivalent to the CSS page-break-before property.
  • Inside: Specifies whether to accept page breaks within the table. Equivalent to the CSS page-break-inside property.
  • After: Specifies how to handle page breaks after the table. Equivalent to the CSS 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 CSS 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 CSS 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 CSS padding property.
  • Top, Left, Bottom, Right: Set padding for each side. Equivalent to the CSS padding-left, padding-top, padding-right and padding-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 CSS margin property.
  • Top, Left, Bottom, Right: Set the margin for each side. Equivalent to the CSS 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 CSS border property.
• 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 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.