At this point in the Web??™s development, Layout mode should be used only to work on
legacy sites where CSS layouts are not an option.
When you??™re in Layout mode, you draw out separate areas to hold your content, and Dreamweaver automatically
converts these areas to cells and tables. The layout cells are very pliable and can easily be moved
about the page, resized, and reshaped. Moreover, Layout mode gives you professional design power with
options to stretch tables to fit the browser window and to size columns precisely.
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Although they share the same underlying HTML structure, tables and cells created in Layout mode differ
from those created in Standard mode in several ways:
n Borders are set to 0, meaning they are turned off.
n Cell padding and cell spacing are also set to 0 to enable content to appear directly side-by-side.
n Layout tables optionally include an extra row, whose columns hold a 1-pixel??“high, transparent
GIF image called a spacer.
n Columns in a layout table are either set to a fixed pixel width or designed to automatically stretch
to the full width of the page.
In addition to these physical differences, Layout mode has a different look as well. Each layout table is
marked with a tab, and the column width is identified either at the top or bottom of each column (as
shown in Figure 13-18).
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