Nested Tables Using Rows

This page has been published with the publish settings of Nested Tables Using Rows.  Why would we want to use the Rows option? The most important thing that the Rows option gives you is the ability to force elements which are supposed to stay in the same horizontal row, to stay in that row when font sizes change.

However, you have to remember what elements define your row. The row is defined by the tallest element in a group as you go down the page vertically. In the case of this page, our rows are going to be defined by the following elements:

• The top navbar
• The vertical line image
• The bottom text box
• The bottom navbar

Let’s reduce our font size and see what happens.

Notice that though the text has all shrunk and the falcon images have moved up on the page, this text stays below the vertical line. This is because the text box above is located in the same table row as the vertical line. Since the image cannot change size, neither can the table which contains it. Any tables located below cannot move up.

Now increase the font size.  Notice that the text above is allowed to exceed the size of the image. This is one of the tricky things about tables: a table can expand downward as far as it wants; however, it may not shrink smaller than the largest fixed image it contains. This is important even when you are using the Columns option.  In the second Columns example, I show you how you can still run into this limitation of tables even when you are using the Columns option for publishing.

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