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is where alot of beginners get confused. The
manual and Help files state that the tables
and cells can be moved and resized with the
mouse. Yet, when they try nothing happens.
Here
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Continuing from the Getting
Started page.
Moving/Resizing
Tables and cells can only be moved or resized
provided there is room to do so. As long as there is
"open" gray area to the tops or sides, they can
be moved or resized. Dreamweaver will display an
icon
when what your trying to do isn't permitted. Basically, you
can't move tables or cells out of
the container that holds them, nor overlap or nudge other
tables or cells that are already in place.
Selecting/Dragging
Tables can be selected
and/or dragged by placing the mouse over the green table tab
or by clicking in the gray area of the table itself. Click
and drag the larger of the nested tables snug
to the upper left hand corner of the larger outer
table. Do the same with the smaller nested tables.
Remember, the table at the very
top is completely seperate. We will deal with this one shortly.
* When moving a table,
any and all content including other tables and cells move
with it.
Arrow keys
We don't need to reposition the tables anymore
at this point, however it is important to know that
the arrow keys work to acomplish this as well. Select
either of the nested tables and move them
around using the keyboards
arrow keys. Each arrow stroke moves the table 1 pixel.
Shift+Arrow
moves them 10 pixels. When finished,
restore the table(s) you just moved to the upper left.
Now select the inner nested table by
clicking inside of it, grab the handle on the right side and
resize it smaller than you want your nav bar to be. Select
the larger "nested" table and resize it
snug around the smaller one and all the way to the bottom
of the larger table.
At this point sizing the Nav bar smaller
than the images we propose to insert will save us work
later on. I will explain why when we actually insert them.
Here is what we should have so far.
* Click on the pic for larger screenshot
Inserting Cells/Content
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