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Thealternatetextwillbeshowninemailsandonwebpagesatthepositionoftheimagewhilethe
imageisloadingandwhentheimageisnotfound.Onwebpages,alternatetextsarealsousedfor
accessibility.
Tosetanalternativetext,clicktheimageandenterthealternatetextintheAlternate textfieldonthe
Attributespaneatthetopright.
UsingaCSSgradienttocreateanimage
CSSgradientsareanewtypeofimageaddedintheCSS3ImageModule.CSSgradientsletyoudis-
playsmoothtransitionsbetweentwoormorespecifiedcolors,whilerepeatinggradientsletyoudisplay
patterns.Thisway,usingimagefilesfortheseeffectscanbeavoided,therebyreducingdownloadtime
andbandwidthusage.Inaddition,objectswithgradientslookbetterwhenzoomedinabrowser,and
youcanadjustyourlayoutwithmuchmoreflexibility.
FormoreinformationaboutthevarioustypesofCSSgradientsandhowtousethem,see
https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Images/Using_CSS_gradients.
Note: WhenCSSrepeatinggradientsaredisplayedinaPDFreader,artifacts,likeverythinlines
mayoccur.Whenthishappens,trysettingthegradient'spositionalittlebitdifferent.
Table
Tablesservetwodifferentpurposes:theyareawaytodisplaydatainatabularformat,andtheyare
alsoawaytopositionelementsonapage.
InHTMLemail,Tablesarethemostreliablewaytopositiontextandimages;see"DesigninganEmail
template"onpage472.Inwebpages,ontheotherhand,InlineBoxesarethepreferredwaytoposition
elements.Tablesshouldonlybeusedtodisplaydatainatabularformat,nottopositiontextand
images.Tablesusedinwebpagestopositionelementsmakethosepageslessaccessibletousers
withdisabilitiesandtoviewersusingsmallerdevices.
Inprint,Tablescanbeusedforbothpurposes.
TherearetwotypesofTables:StandardTableswhicharestaticinnature,andDynamicTableswhich
haveavariablenumberofrowsdependingonadetailtableintherecord;see"DynamicTable"on
page742.
HTMLelement:table
Whenyouaddelements,suchastext,imagesoratable,tothecontentofatemplate,youareactually
constructinganHTMLfile.ItispossibletoeditthesourceoftheHTMLfiledirectlyintheDesigner;see
"EditingHTML"onpage568.
TheHTMLtagofaTableis<table>.Tablesaredividedintotablerowswiththe<tr>tag.Tablerowsare
dividedintotabledatawiththe<td>tag.Atablerowcanalsobedividedintotableheadingswiththe
<th>tag.
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