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Tables | A grid of rows and columns that can either be used to hold tabular data on a Web page or as a basic design tool for page layout. |
Cells | A small box within a table that is used to hold text or images. Cells are arranged horizontally in rows and vertically in columns. |
Standard Mode | A Dreamweaver mode that is used when you insert a table using the Insert Table icon. |
Exanded Tables Mode | An environment for creating tables that features expanded borders and expanded white space between cells. |
Border | An outline that surrounds an image, cell, or table. |
Adobe Flash | A software program used for creating vector-based graphics and animation. |
Cell Padding | In a table, the distance between the cell content and the cell walls. |
Cell Spacing | In a table, the distance between cells. |
WYSIWYG | An acronym for What You See Is What You Get, which means that as you design a Web page in Dreamweaver, you are seeing the page exactly as it will appear in a browser window. |
Nonbreaking Space | A space that appears in a fixed location to keep a line break from separating text into two lines or, in the case of table cells, to keep an empty cell from collapsing. |
Nested Table | A table that is placed inside the cells of another table. |
Tag Selector | An individual piece of HTML code. |
Split Cells | To divide cells into multiple rows or columns. |
Merge Cells | To combine multiple cells into one cell. |
Tabular Data | Data arranged in columns and rows and separated by a delimiter. |
Delimiter | A comma, tab, colon, semicolon, or similar character that separates tabular data in a text file. |
Importing | To bring data created an another software program into Dreamweaver. |
Exporting | To save data that was created in Dreamweaver in a special file format to bring into another software program. |
Table Headers | Text placed at the top or sides of a table on a Web page and read by screen readers. |
Visual Aids | A page feature that appears in Design view but not in the browser, such as a table border. |
Grids | A set of horizontal and vertical lines that provide a graph-paper-like view of a page. |
Guides | A horizontal or vertical line that you drag onto a page from a ruler. Used to position objects, guides are not visible in the browser. |
Distance | A feature that shows you the distance between two guides when you hold down the control key and place the mouse pointer between the guides. |