Revision as of 09:41, 6 September 2010

Creating a table

If you want to create a table in CKEditor you must press the "Insert/Edit Table" button on the toolbar.

After that a popup window called "Table Properties" will appear. It incules two bookmarks.

Table Properties

Table properties

• Rows: in this field you specify number of rows in the table.
  
• Columns: specifies number of columns in the table.
  
• Width: sets the width of user table in pixels or percentage. E.g. Choosing 40 percent table takes 40% of the editing area width.
  
• "Height: sets the height of user table in pixels.
  
• Headers: specifies how headers look like. User may choose following option "First Line", "First column", "Both".
  
• Border size: sets the thickness of the tables border.
  
• Alignment: specifies the alignment of the table. Three options available: left, center and right.
  
• Cell spacing: specifies thickness of the cell’s border.
• Cell padding: sets the hight of the cell.
• Caption: specifies the title of the table. The title appears in the top of the table.
• Summary: sets a comment on the table.The comment does not appear in the table. It is only meant for usage.

Not all options are required to build a table. User is asked to fill only Rows and Columns. Filling the rest of the fields is optional. It may be used or not, depending on User’s needs.

Advanced

The second bookmarks regards to "Advanced":

This bookmark allows user to set following option:

• Id: specifies link's ID.
• Language Direction: sets the language direction from left to right (LTR)or from right to left ( RTL ).
• Style: defines the style.
• Stylesheet Classes: specifies the name of the CSS class.

Working with the table

If you created your table you may change its properties. Point your mouse on the table press the right button and a context menu will appear.

In order to change the tables properties press "Table Properties" and a popup window will appear. It's the same windows that you used for creating the table.

If you want to delete you table simply press "Delete Table".

The other three options are Cell, Row and Column. If you point your mouse cursor on one of them a new context menu will appear.

Cell

• Insert Cell Before: inserts a new cell before the cell your cursor is currently in.
  
• Insert Cell After: inserts a new cell after the cell your cursor is currently in.
• Delete Cells: deletes the cell your cursor is in. You may also highlight more cells and than delete them.
• Merge Cells: merges cells you have highlighted into a one cell.
• Split Cell Horizontally: splits a cell in two.One cell is split in two colums.
  
• Split Cell Vertically:splits a cell in two.One cells is split in two rows.
• Cell properties: if you click the cell properties a new popup window called "Cell Properties" will appear:

• Width: sets the cell width in pixels or in percentage of the table width.
• Height: sets the height of the cell.
  
• Word Wrap: turns on/off word wrapping.
• Horizontal Alignment:determines the horizontal alignment of the text in your cell. It can be set to Left, Center or Right.
• Vertical Alignment: determines the vertical alignment of the text in your cell. It can be set to Top, Middle, Bottom or Baseline.
• Rows span: extends vertical rows.
• Columns span:extends cells on a horizontal row (left and right).
• Background color: sets the background color of your cell. You can either select a color or type it manually.
• Border Color: sets the color of your cells border. You can either select a color or type it manually.

Row

• Insert Row Before: inserts a new row before the row your cursor is currently in.
• Insert Row After: inserts a new row after the row your cursor is currently in.
• Delete Rows: deletes highlighted rows or the row your cursor is currently in.

Column

• Insert Column Before: inserts a column before the column your cursor is currently in.
• Insert Column After: inserts a column after the column your cursor is currently in.
• Delete Columns: deletes highlighted columns or the column your cursor is currently in.