NEWBIE Table question

Question

Sorry I'm a newbie here and to website design. I just
installed CS3 with DW (version 9.0) and was trying the Tutorials in
the manual from online.
Tutorial #4 on pg 56 "Creating a table-based page layout".
After you've created the 3 tables (straight forward and are easy
enough), it says to:
1. click on the 1st table, row 1. Go to properties (at the
bottom of the screen) and enter 90 for cell height. press enter. (I
have no problem doing this.)
2. click on on the 1st table, row 2, Go to properties and
enter 166 for cell height and press enter. (no problem)
3. click on the 1st table, row 3, go to properties and enter
24 for the cell height and press enter.
HOWEVER now when I go back to Row 1 the cell height for row 1
is 24. I have tried several different times but it seems that all
rows in the table are going to the latest entry for cell height.
Tutorial seems simple enough, simple idea, but it doesn't work. Is
there a default I need to turn off or something?
It doesn't make sense to me (am a newbie), but if I click in
the 1st table, 1st row and then have to click in the Properties box
at the box there isn't a cursor left in the table... how would the
program know that I only want row 1 changed?
There has to be a simple answer here, but I'll be darned if I
can find it. Help please...

Answer 1

Are you supposed to be putting anything into these cells?
Regardless of
whether you put in a height for a row / cell, it will only
shrink or grow
depending on the contents within the cell. The rows are just
shrinking
back to their default height, until you place something
inside them. Also,
if you placed an image into the row that was 28px high and
you entered 24px
for the row height, it would not go down to 24px it would
stay at 28, the
height of the image inside it. Seems like a strange way for a
tutorial to
be written - must be something from the 'old days' :-)
May I recommend instead that you head over to the Adobe site
and read
/practise through the tutorials there. You'll actually learn
the latest way
to develop pages and that is with CSS layout - rather than
using tables.
Nothing wrong with using tables while you start, but as a
fresh beginner,
you may as well start off with using CSS.
Tutorials here:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/css.html
Look for the beginner ones - I'm sure you'll get more value
out of those
than the one you are going through now :-)
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"broke.dave" <[email protected]> wrote in
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news:[email protected]...
> Sorry I'm a newbie here and to website design. I just
installed CS3 with
> DW
> (version 9.0) and was trying the Tutorials in the manual
from online.
>
> Tutorial #4 on pg 56 "Creating a table-based page
layout". After you've
> created the 3 tables (straight forward and are easy
enough), it says to:
> 1. click on the 1st table, row 1. Go to properties (at
the bottom of the
> screen) and enter 90 for cell height. press enter. (I
have no problem
> doing
> this.)
> 2. click on on the 1st table, row 2, Go to properties
and enter 166 for
> cell
> height and press enter. (no problem)
> 3. click on the 1st table, row 3, go to properties and
enter 24 for the
> cell
> height and press enter.
>
> HOWEVER now when I go back to Row 1 the cell height for
row 1 is 24. I
> have
> tried several different times but it seems that all rows
in the table are
> going
> to the latest entry for cell height. Tutorial seems
simple enough, simple
> idea, but it doesn't work. Is there a default I need to
turn off or
> something?
>
> It doesn't make sense to me (am a newbie), but if I
click in the 1st
> table,
> 1st row and then have to click in the Properties box at
the box there
> isn't a
> cursor left in the table... how would the program know
that I only want
> row 1
> changed?
>
> There has to be a simple answer here, but I'll be darned
if I can find it.
> Help please...
>