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FrontPage Table Turn-Ons
~~Tina
Clarke, AccessFP - FrontPage Resource Centre
Last month we discussed turning off table
borders, to avoid that newbie look. However there are times when it IS
desirable to use them to enhance a menu table, which is included within the
main table or merely the outline border of a table to define the content and
bring it into focus.
When you set the borders of a table there are other features to take into
consideration too.
SETTING THE BORDERS OF THE TABLE
Set one or more of the following (or you can use the default values):
- Size - Type the width you want for the table border in pixels.
- Colour - To set one colour for the table border, select a
colour from the list. Use Light border and Dark border to set
a two-colour border for a three-dimensional effect. Select colours from
the lists.
NOTE: When you only select a Light Border or a Dark Border, the
second colour used for the table border is the colour selected from the
Normal drop-down list.
TROUBLE SHOOTING BORDERS
If your double borders don't show up in Netscape Navigator this is because
Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator display tables
differently. With coloured borders, only a single colour will render in
Netscape, not the three-dimensional looking double border.
TABLE EFFECTS
Have you wanted to do more with your tables but were not sure how? There is
now a FrontPage add-on FrontFX Tools+ 1 which offers several basic table
effects that can be run over any table. You can quickly apply your own
saved configurations (Saved from the Insert Table dialog). It also allows
saving the full format and layout of a table with the full content if
desired (including graphics if in a FrontPage Web) for use at a later stage,
in other pages, or even in another Web! Not only that, it also adds special
effect gradients or alternate colours down the rows, or across the columns,
of a table. Check out
http://frontpagegeeks.com
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Tina Clarke - Microsoft MVP - FrontPage, is
the Webmaster of AccessFP - FrontPage Resource Centre
http://accessfp.net/
and http://addonfp.com
She is also an editor of AnyFrontPageBytes Ezine. Subscribe to the ezine
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