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Cell padding | Distance between cell text and the cell border |
Cell spacing | Amount of space between table cells |
Column group | More than one column in a table treated as a unit for formatting purposes. |
Columnar layout | A layout wherein content is arranged into columns |
Fixed-width font | A font wherein each letter takes up the same amount of space. |
Fixed-width layout | A layout wherein the Web designer defines the exact size of every table element in absolute units such as pixels. |
Fluid layout | A layout wherein one or more elements is sized as a percentage of the page width. |
Graphical table | A table rendered with graphical elements to distinguish among the components. |
Jigsaw layout | A design technique wherein the elements are broken up into units of varying size and shape and are fitted together in a table like a jigsaw puzzle. |
Jigsaw table | Jigsaw table. |
Monospace font | Fixed-width font. |
Preformatted text | Text that retains the extra whitespace needed to line columns and rows up with one another. |
Proportional font | A font that assigns a different amount of space for each character, depending on the width of the character. |
Row group | More than one row in a table, treated as a unit for formatting purposes. |
Sectional layout | A layout wherein the Web designer breaks the content into sections, placing each section in its own table cell. |
Spanning cell | A cell that occupies more than one row or column in a table. |
Text table | A table that contains only text and standard word processing characters for formatting. |