Table Text Options

There are also ranges of options you can use only with the table text formats, for styling tables, in addition to all of the character options that are supported by default as well. These options are as follows:

• cell-border-width – specifies the width of the border surrounding the cell
• cell-border-color – the color of the border surrounding the cell
• cell-border-style – one of six possible styles for the border of the cell, which can either be flat, raised, sunken, ridge, groove or none
• cell-margin – the amount of space between the contents of the table cell and the table's inner margin

You could use these table text options as follows to create a table with a rather more sophisticated (if not a particular tasteful!) set of styles:

|| table3.curl
{curl 1.7 applet}
{applet license = "development"}
{table cell-border-width=1, cell-border-style="raised",
  cell-border-color="green", cell-margin= 5,
	{header-row
		{header-cell background="pink", Artist}
		{header-cell background="pink", Movement}
	}
	{row
		{cell Paul Klee}
		{cell font-style="italic", Abstract Expressionism}
	}
	{row
		{cell Max Ernst }
		{cell font-style="italic", Surrealism}
	}
}

Here we've used a mixture of table text options, cell-border-width, cell-border-style, cell-border-color, and cell-margin. These alter the border styling of the table cells. As we place them within the table text format, they affect the table as a whole. We separately specify the font-style as italic for the second column contents, and we specify the header-cells as having a pink background. This all results in the following display, which looks rather better in black and white than it does in color:

Table Text Formats
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