Laying out a page template with tables
You can create a page template with tabular layout using either HTML tables or free layout tables.
Web designers often use a grid layout to design their pages. Tables make it easy to lay out a grid. For example, you could have one section of the table for a logo, another section for navigation, and another area for updated content. Within a table, you can define areas that are editable (content areas). The region of the table surrounding the content areas is called a common area and will be read-only when applied to a page.
There are two options for page template layout with tables:
To lay out your page with tables, you can complete one of the following tasks:
- Free layout tables let you easily position items on your Web page without any HTML coding. Once you create a free layout table, the table framework is automatically created. You can immediately start adding components to the table where you want them, and. This approach lets you focus more on the layout and less on the underlying table. The borders and cells of a free layout table are hidden when displayed in a browser.
- Standard HTML tables require knowledge of HTML coding. Create the table first and then add objects to the cells of the table.
Related concepts
Editing pages with free layout tables
Design-time page templates and dynamic page templates
Related tasks
Generating Web pages from page templates
Applying or replacing page templates to Web pages
Applying a page template to a Web site
Adding content to a page template
Creating a nested page template