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Tables overview

Tables are an extremely powerful tool for laying out data and images on an HTML page. Tables provide Web designers ways to add vertical and horizontal structure to a page.

Tables consist of three basic components:

	Rows (horizontal spacing)
	Columns (vertical spacing)
	Cells (the container created when a row and column intersect)

Use tables to lay out tabular data, to design columns on a page, or to lay out text and graphics on a Web page. Once you create a table you can easily modify both the appearance and the structure of the table. You can add content; add, delete, split, and merge rows and columns; modify table, row, or cell properties to add color and alignment; and copy and paste cells.

Note: It is recommended that you use Layout view for page layout (See Layout overview). Layout view is an easy way to implement your page layout with tables as the underlying structure. Use tables in Dreamweaver to add tabular data to your page.