Selecting cells
Sometimes you need to change an attribute of just a few cells in a table, but not the entire row??”or you
might need to merge several cells to form one wide column span. In these situations, and many others, you
can use Dreamweaver??™s cell selection capabilities. As with columns and rows, you can select multiple cells,
whether they are adjacent or not.
Individual cells are generally selected by dragging the mouse across one or more cell boundaries. To select a
single cell, click anywhere in the cell and drag the mouse into another cell. As you pass the border between
the two cells, the initial cell is highlighted. If you continue dragging the mouse across another cell boundary,
the second cell is selected, and so on. Note that you have to drag the mouse into another cell and not
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cross the table border onto the page. For example, to highlight the lower-right cell of a table, you drag the
mouse up or to the left.
You can also select a single cell by pressing the Ctrl (Command) key and clicking once in the
cell, or you can select the rightmost
tag in the Tag Selector.
Extended cell selection in Dreamweaver is handled identically to extended text selection in most word processing
programs.
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