Editing Table Component Properties in DITA

To customize the look of a table, place the cursor anywhere in a table and invoke the Table Properties (Ctrl T (Command T on OS X)) action from the Table submenu of the contextual menu or DITA menu (or from the toolbar).

The Table properties dialog box allows you to set specific properties to the table elements.
Note: Depending on the context, some options or values are filtered out.
Note: If you want to remove a property, set its value to <not set>.
Note: Choose the <preserve> setting to:
  • Keep the current non-standard value for a particular property.
  • Keep the values already set. This happens when you select multiple elements having the same property set to different values.
For a CALS table you can format any of the following:
For a Simple table, you can customize the following: