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"helga55" |
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25 Jan 2008 12:57:13 PM |
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Text in tables |
Hi,
I inserted a table and tried to write some text into one of the table's cells
but i cant seem to be able to get rid of the space between the text lines like
i would in say MS Word by 'changing the spacing'. I have tried to change the
size of the text to no avail. Even if I use the smallest of font size the
spaces remain so i am not getting a tight paragraph.
Thanks
Helga
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| User: "helga55" |
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| Title: Re: Text in tables |
25 Jan 2008 02:07:13 PM |
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Alec, I hate to say this after reading the recent discussions but i am still using DW!
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| User: "helga55" |
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| Title: Re: Text in tables |
25 Jan 2008 03:06:48 PM |
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It works if I type it in a World document and then paste it into the Table. Hope we Table Types are not the new pariahs on this forum!
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| User: "Alec" |
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| Title: Re: Text in tables |
25 Jan 2008 09:42:42 PM |
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Probably because when you copy from Word, you are pasting in all the
bloated styles that Word creates. I don't know what you mean by "I hate
to say this after reading the recent discussions but i am still using
DW". Your issue (I think) has less to do with tables and more to do with
learning CSS to get the visual formatting you want. As Alan said, the
best way for anyone to help you here is to post a URL to the page so we
can see the code.
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Alec
Adobe Community Expert
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| User: "Alan" |
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| Title: Re: Text in tables |
25 Jan 2008 03:40:46 PM |
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we would need to see the page to do other than guess.
my first guess, is that when you reach the end of a line of text in dw, are
you pressing the Enter or Return key?
if yes, that's the reason you are having difficulty.
Enter key=<p> paragraph html tag
Shift+Enter key=<br> line break tag.
And- unless you want to start a new line, in html you just keep typing and
let the text flow as needed.
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Alan
Adobe Community Expert, dreamweaver
http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/
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| User: "helga55" |
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| Title: Re: Text in tables |
26 Jan 2008 06:16:56 PM |
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Thanks Alec - I will try and host the page on my lab's website. I havent done
this before as with my earlier web page i got everything ready and then I asked
my systems manager to host it on our lab website. So if I do it the way you
requested/advised me to will it be seen by everyone?
I understand what Alan meant - I would really like to learn CSS (a regular
plea of my systems guy too) but I am not a web designer by profession. I am a
biologist mascarading as a remote sensing person which for me is very difficult
as I have a lot of learning to do in my spare time eg image processing. This is
a website that i am doing in my spare time for our project - i have no time on
that grant to charge for web designing. So you see i am totally out of league
here.
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| User: "Malcolm N_" |
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| Title: Re: Text in tables |
26 Jan 2008 10:06:54 PM |
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On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 00:16:56 +0000 (UTC), "helga55"
<webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote:
Thanks Alec - I will try and host the page on my lab's website. I havent done
this before as with my earlier web page i got everything ready and then I asked
my systems manager to host it on our lab website. So if I do it the way you
requested/advised me to will it be seen by everyone?
not if it you don't put any links into it -
temporary give the home page a different name - instead of index.htm,
called it testhome.htm or whatever.
then post the address here:
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~Malcolm N....
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| User: "Alec" |
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| Title: Re: Text in tables |
25 Jan 2008 01:15:25 PM |
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To adjust the spacing between lines of text, use the line-height CSS
property.
To affect all text in all table cells, add the following in your CSS block:
td {
line-height: 70%;
}
You can play with that 70% value to tweak it to your liking. To affect
text in a specific cell or cells, use classes, ids, or descendant
selectors instead of the type selector (td) I suggested.
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Alec
Adobe Community Expert
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