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To style all cells in a table or row at the same time via the Formatting dialog, you have to select
the table or row first; see "Selecting a table, row or cell" on the previous page
Next, to open the Formatting dialog, choose Format > Table Cell. The settings that you make
now will be applied to all cells in the selected row or table.
Via a style sheet
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) offer more ways to style a table and its contents, than the
Formatting dialog does. This is especially true for Dynamic Tables. With local formatting, all
rows that are added on the fly (in Preview mode and in output) will look exactly the same as the
first one. Alternating row colors, for example, in dynamically added rows can only be done via
CSS. How to do this is described below
Another good reason to prefer style sheets over local formatting for Dynamic Tables, is that the
output from a Dynamic Table is created slightly faster when it's styled via Cascading Style
Sheets than when it's styled with local formatting.
How to use style sheets is explained in another topic; see "Styling templates with CSS files" on
page490.
Note that to make a style rule apply to a specific table, row or cell, you have to add an ID or
class to that table, row or cell.
Adding an ID or class to a table, row or cell
A style sheet contains a bunch of style rules for different elements, that are identified via a CSS
selector. This can be the element's HTML tag (without the angle brackets), ID or class.
When used as a CSS selector, the HTML tag for a table is table. For a row, it is tr and for a cell,
td. A style rule that uses one of these, however, would apply to all tables, rows, or cells. For a
rule to be more specific you need to add an ID (for a unique element) or a class (for a set of
similar elements) to the table, row or cell, and use that as the style rule's selector.
Before you can add an ID or class to a table, row or cell, you have to select that table, row or
cell (see "Selecting a table, row or cell" on the previous page). After selecting the cell, row or
table, type the ID or class in the respective field on the Attributes pane.
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