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Exporting tables as HTML

Exporting tables as HTML - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign CS6: HTML

Exporting tables as HTML

One of the most common text elements that you'll deal with when exporting from html is a table. The good news is you don't actually have to do anything to export an in design table as an html table. InDesign recognizes tables, their headers, their footers, their rows, their columns. And it exports everything accordingly with the appropriate HTML markup, and InDesign does all of this automatically. The only way you get to excert any influence over the exported HTML for a table is by using table styles and cell styles. When you work with these styles The name of your table style gets assigned as a class attribute to the table tag in the HTML. The name of the cell style gets attached as a class attribute to the TD tag for any cells in your document. The name of the cell style that you use becomes the name of the class attribute for the TD tag in the HTML. Beyond that InDesign handles everything else. So let's take a look at what kind of output you get in HTML from a table in InDesign. In…

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