Tables are used to insert tabular datas and to make structured layout. Tables consists of rows and columns. Each row and column combine to form a cell. In each cell you can insert different datas. Each cell properties can be uniquely changeable. Tables have three modes namely Standard, Expanded and Layout.

Inserting Table:

Steps:

• Open a new html document.
• Click " Insert " and select " Table " or use the shortcut key " ctrl + alt + T " to insert a table.
• At the " table " popup window, you can set the table properties as your desire such as number of rows and columns, table width and border size.
• One more property have to set is "cell padding ". Better keep this value at " 0 ".

Modifying Table:

Dreamweaver provides excellent user-friendly interface to modify object's properties which is called Property Inspector.This panel show at the bottom which will show all properties by clicking appropriate objects including tables.If you planned to show your webpage contents at the middle of the screen and don't want to occupy the whole size, then click the table. You will see " Align " list box at property panel, drop it and select " center " alignment. Now reduce the width to your desired percentage. Have a look at the following picture for a sample.