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There are only two basic table generation schemes in NetObjects Fusion, Nested and Regular. Nested Tables is the default setting, but you can also choose to use Regular tables. What’s the difference?
When you use the Regular tables option, instead of creating nested tables to hold information, NetObjects creates a single table. Here is an example of a table which looks like the simple table I created on the Nested Tables page but instead of having one table inside the other it just has more cells defined in the same table:
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This is all one table.
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This is a cell within the table.
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As you can see this makes the structure a little simpler because all the information is only in one large table and I don’t have to create extra code to make another table inside the first one. So the Regular Tables option can be helpful if you want to simplify the table structure of your page.
However, because of this, when fonts change size, the behavior of the layout can be very different than Nested Tables. Remember that a table cell can never shrink to less than the size of an image which it contains. We’re going to use a slightly different layout to illustrate this difference. First, we’ll look at the page using Nested Tables, then we’ll look at one which uses Regular Tables.
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