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Barry Pearson
Whitecrest said:Ok , I build most of my websites ( just like you people ) using
tables? [snip]
until now i wrote the html code by hand in dreamweaver , but i got
tired of doing that and i wanted you yo ask if you know a good
software , freeware or shareware , it doesnt matter , that is
specialized in html tables , dreamweaver doesnt fills my needs
anymore and i want to use a specialized software for my tables . If
you know a software like that please post.
If dreamweaver doesn't do it, then it is a pretty good guess that
nothing else will either. (but you sound like a troll)
Dreamweaver can generate tables very well.
I think MX 2004 has pretty good support for data tables. For example, click on
the button to insert a table, and you get prompted for where (if at all) you
want headers. Left, top, or both, (or neither). Then look at the code, and you
have proper (as far as I can tell) scope attributes for them. (You also get
prompted for caption & scope information). Add an extra row or column, and
scope gets replicated consistently. Plenty of features for inserting extra
rows & columns, deleting them, merging or splitting cells (colspan & rowspan),
etc. Easy to add ID and/or CLASS attributes to the table, rows, cells, etc. It
puts in even the optional closing tags (well, I like that). (Support for
thead, etc, isn't as good). And tables are presented in a pseudo-WYSIWYG
manner.
For layout tables, stay out of Layout Mode. It generates fragile tables, with
lots of heights & widths & spans. But just treat them like simple data tables
without headers & the rest, and they are then clean.
Perhaps the OP wasn't saying that Dreamweaver was poor at tables?