Revision as of 14:01, 3 November 2010

Creating a Table

A table is a perfect format for some types of data, including statistical information. CKEditor not only lets you add and edit this common text placeholder in a quick and easy way but also offers advanced customization options.

To create a table in CKEditor, press the button on the toolbar. The Table Properties dialog window that will open lets you set configuration options that define table size, its display properties, or other advanced properties.

The Table Properties dialog window includes two tabs that group table options:

• Table Properties
• Advanced

Both tabs contain the and buttons that let you accept the changes or close the dialog window without performing any changes, respectively.

Once inserted into the document, a table can be edited at any time by double-clicking it. The Table Properties dialog window will open again and you will be able to introduce changes to the table configuration options.

If you attempt to close the Table Properties dialog window without saving the changes, you will be prompted to do so:

An alert window prompting to save the changes made to the table

You can either proceed without saving your changes by choosing OK or close the alert window with the Cancel command and save the changes.

Table Properties

Table properties

• Rows: in this field user specify number of rows in the table.
  
• Columns: specifies number of columns in the table.
  
• Width: sets the width of the table in pixels or percentage. E.g. Choosing 40 percent table takes 40% of the editing area width.
  
• "Height: sets the height of the table in pixels.
  
• Headers: specifies how headers will 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.

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 refers 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

User is able to change table’s properties. To modify table user must point mouse on the table and press the right button to display a context menu..

File:CKEditor context table.png

In order to change the tables’ properties "Table Properties" should be pressed. A popup window appears. Similar to the one which is used for creating the table.

To delete the table press "Delete Table".

The other three options are Cell, Row and Column. Pointing with mouse cursor on one of them shows a new context menu.

Cell

The cell context menu

• Insert Cell Before: inserts a new cell before the cell where the cursor was located.
  
• Insert Cell After: inserts a new cell after the cell where the cursor was located.
• Delete Cells: deletes a cell the cursor was by. User may also highlight more cells and delete them.
• Merge Cells: merges cells you have highlighted into a one cell.
• Merge Right: merges cell where the cursor was located with the right cell.
• Merge Down: merges cell where the cursor was located with cell below.
• Split Cell Horizontally: splits a cell in two. One cell is split into two columns.
  
• Split Cell Vertically: splits a cell in two. One cell is split into two rows.
• Cell properties: Clicking the cell properties displays a new popup window called "Cell Properties". :

• 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 a cell. Three options are available: Left, Center and Right.
• Vertical Alignment: determines the vertical alignment of the text in a cell, which may be set to Top, Middle, Bottom or Baseline.
• Cell Type: determines the type of cell, user may set Data cell or Header cell.
• Rows span: extends vertical rows.
• Columns span:extends cells on a horizontal row (left and right).
• Background color: sets the background color of a cell. User may either select a color or type it manually.
• Border Color: sets the color of your cells border. User may either select a color or type it manually.

Row

File:CKEditor row context.png

• Insert Row Before: inserts a new row before the row where the cursor was located.
• Insert Row After: inserts a new row after the row where the cursor was located.
• Delete Rows: deletes highlighted rows or the row the cursor was by.

Column

File:CKEditor column context.png

• Insert Column Before: inserts a column before the column where the cursor was located.
• Insert Column After: inserts a column after the column where the cursor was located.
• Delete Columns: deletes highlighted columns or the column the cursor was by.