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Resizing a table
The primary sizing control on the Table Property inspector is the W (Width) text box. You can assign a new
width for the entire table in either a screen percentage or pixels. Just enter your value in the W text box and
then select % or Pixels in the drop-down list of options.
Dreamweaver also provides a quick and intuitive way to resize the overall table width, the column widths,
or the row height. Pass your pointer over any of the table??™s borders, and the pointer becomes a two-headed
arrow; this is the resizing pointer. When you see the resizing pointer, you can click and drag any border to
new dimensions.
As noted earlier, tables are initially sized according to their contents. After you move a table border in
Dreamweaver, however, the new sizes are written directly into the HTML code, and the column width or
row height is adjusted??”unless the contents cannot fit. If, for example, an inserted image is 115 pixels wide
and the cell has a width of only 90 pixels, the cell expands to fit the image. The same is true if you try to fit
an extremely long, unbroken text string, such as a complex URL, into a cell that??™s too narrow to hold it.
Dreamweaver enables you to set the height of a table using the H (Height) text box in much the same way
as the Width box.
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