Specifying border style, color, and width for a table or block of cells
You can control the style, color, and width of borders for a whole table or a block of cells using the Table Borders dialog box. The border properties you select in this dialog box apply to all the selected cells as a unit. For example, you could select a block of cells in the middle of a table and apply a distinct set of border properties to it as a block. In the example below, the middle block of four cells uses double outer borders and dashed inner borders, while the rest of the table uses single, solid borders.
Border properties applied to a cell block
To specify complete border properties for a whole table or a block of cells
- Do one of the following:
- If you want to apply border properties to an entire table, place the insertion point inside the table.
- If you want to apply border properties to a block of cells, select the desired cells.
- Right-click, point to Table, and click Advanced.
- In the border selection box, click to select the border for which you want to specify properties. To select multiple borders, click each while holding down the Ctrl key. (See the illustrations below.) You can also use the buttons under the selection box to select various groups of borders.
Click a border to select it.
Click another border while holding down the Ctrl key to also select it.
Click an intersection to select two borders.
Double-click anywhere to select or deselect all borders.
- Do any or all of the following:
- Click the Style box and select the desired border style. (If you select None, the border is hidden.)
- Click the Color box and select a color.
- Enter a number in the Width box and select a unit in the unit box.
- Repeat steps 3 and 4 for each border or set of borders you want to change.
- Click OK.
When you use the Table Borders dialog box with a particular table for the first time, Namo WebEditor sets the table’s cell spacing to 0. Also, if you use it to specify the borders of only part of a table, the rest of the table will be automatically changed to use solid, black, 1-pixel borders.
Namo WebEditor uses CSS properties to apply settings in the Table Borders dialog box. Please note that various browsers may support these CSS properties differently or not at all.