Working with Tables in Java

Generator Code-128 in Java Working with Tables

Color: You can select a color for your border from the many Websafe colors that this option offers Width: In this text box, you can specify how wide (in pixels) you want the border Padding: You can set how much padding (in pixels) you want between all sides of the border and the text inside it by entering a value in these four text boxes Preview: In this area, you can see what your borders look like, as well as add or remove individual sides of the border To add or remove sides, click one of the four buttons that surrounds the sample page

On the Shading tab, you can set the foreground and background colors, as well as select an image as the background for the text box To choose a background image, click the Browse button to find an image on your local drive, a network drive, or the World Wide Web With each color selection, you get several default choices, but you can also specify any color from the Web palette

When it comes to laying out a Web page, tables are the backbone of nearly all Web-page development The notion of a table with rows and columns was one of the first concepts introduced in the first version of HTML Tables still offer the most effective method of presenting data within a Web browser Instead of carefully laying out everything, you just plop each item in a table

Not surprisingly, FrontPage offers a host of utilities that make generating and maintaining tables a reasonably easy task The syntax and methodology for creating tables are, in fact, very similar to that of the other Office programs

To create a table in FrontPage, follow these steps:

The Insert Table dialog box appears (see Figure 5-5)

Figure 5-5: You can use this dialog box to insert tables into your Web page the easy way!

2 Select one of the following layout tool options:

Enable Layout Tools: Clicking the border of a table created with this option automatically activates the FrontPage table layout tools Disable Layout Tools: Clicking the border of a table created with this option doesn t automatically activate the FrontPage table layout tools Automatically Enable Layout Tools Based on Table Content: Clicking the border of a table created with this option automatically activates the FrontPage table layout tools (or not) based on the content you place in your table cells

Another way to view table layout tools is to choose Table Layout Tables And Cells from the FrontPage main menu to display the Layout Tables and Cells task panel and then select Show Layout Tool from the Layout Tables and Cells task panel

number of rows and columns that you want for your table Remember: If you need more rows and columns after you create your table, you can just right-click a cell and choose Insert Row or Insert Column from the shortcut menu

dialog box: Alignment: Determines how you want the table to be aligned on the page Your choices are left, right, and center Choosing Left, for example, places the table against the left margin Float: Determines how you want the table to be aligned on the page Your choices are left and right Cell Padding: Sets the distance, in pixels, between the borders of a cell and the text within the cell Enter a number in this text box Cell Spacing: Sets the distance, in pixels, between cells Enter a number in this text box Specify Width and Specify Height: Sets the width and height, respectively, of the table You can specify both width and height as a percentage of the page or as a set pixel width by choosing the In Pixels or In Percent option button