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edge of the cell and its content, see "Spacing" on page191), and the background color or
image of the table and its cells ("Background color and/or image" on page181).
To open the Formatting dialog for one cell or for the table as a whole:
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Click in a cell and choose Format > Table or Format > Table Cell.
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Right-click it and choose Cell... or Table... from the shortcut menu.
Note that in this case Table styles the table as a whole. When you choose Table and change
the border, for example, the borders of the cells inside it will not be changed.
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.
How to use style sheets is explained in another topic; see "Styling templates with CSS files" on
page166.
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.
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