Adding Tables in XHTML Documents
You can use the 
Insert Table action
on the toolbar or from the contextual menu to add a table in an XHTML document. This action
opens the Insert Table dialog box.
- Caption
- If this checkbox is selected, you can specify a title (caption) for your table in the adjacent text box.
- Frame
- Allows you to specify a value for the
@frameattribute. It is used to specify where a border should appear in the table. There are a variety of allowed values, as specified in HTML specifications. - Alignment
- Specifies the alignment of the text within the table (
@alignattribute). The allowed values are:
When you click Insert, an HTML style of table is inserted into your XHTML document at the current cursor position.
When you insert an HTML table, you see a link for setting the <colspecs>
(column specifications) of your table. Click the link to open the controls that allow you to
adjust various column properties. Although they appear as part of the Author mode, the
colspecs link and its controls will not appear in your output. They are
just there to make it easier to adjust how the columns of your table are formatted.
Editing an Existing Table
You can edit the structure of an existing table using the table buttons on the toolbar (or in the contextual menu) to add or remove cells, rows, or columns, and to set basic table properties. Additional attributes can be used to fine-tune the formatting of your tables by using the Attributes view (). Also, remember that underneath the visual representation, the table is really just XML. If necessary, you can edit the XML directly by switching to Text mode.