Tables

This and the associated tutorials will show you how to work with tables in Dreamweaver CS5.

Tables were originally introduced into web pages to display tabular data. However, over time they became popular as a way of laying out pages as well, and in particular to take over from frames as a powerful and flexible approach to this task.

Nowadays Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are progressively taking over from tables as the de facto standard for laying out pages, but it's still important to understand tables and how to use them, partly due to their continuing (but reducing) use for layout and partly due to their continuing use for tabular data.

Here's a table on a web page. It has three rows and three columns.

Rows run across the table horizontally and cover the entire width of the table. The rows don't need to be of equal height.

Columns run vertically. Note that the columns in a table don't need to have equal width.

Where a row and column intersect we have a cell.

The default behavior for a table is that the rows, columns and cells adjust their sizes as we enter data, although we can override this and fix sizes.

One of the problems with tables is that they can behave differently in different browsers, so if you use tables, make sure that you test your pages well, and that in particular you check older browser versions.

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