With Dreamweaver??™s Table Widths feature, you can tell at a glance whether your table and cells are set to
percentages or pixels??”and exactly what these values are. The Table Widths feature is a design-time visual
aid that appears above or below (depending on its position in the window) a table when one or more table
cells are active. The widths are presented in two lines: the outermost line shows the width of the entire
table, and the innermost line displays cell-width measurements.
With the Table Widths feature enabled, tables or cells using percentages actually display two values. The
first value shown is the actual percentage; it is followed by a second value in parentheses that indicates the
current size in pixels. For example, if a table is set to 75% and placed in a browser window where the interior
screen width is 774 pixels, the actual width of the table is 425 pixels. Dreamweaver displays 75%
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(425), as shown in Figure 13-2. The same figure shows two other tables: one at 100%, which takes up the
full width of the browser window, minus any margins. The third table is fixed at 400 pixels??”approximately
half of an 800 x 600 window.
FIGURE 13-2
In addition to displaying overall table and column widths, the Table Width visual aid provides a quick method for
working with columns.
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