Arbortext Editor supports editing of HTML tables. HTML table support provides users with a method for authoring valid HTML tables. It is not intended that Arbortext Editor properly read every variation of HTML tables created by other products.

The formal definition of the HTML table model is available on the W3C web site (http://www.w3.org).

There are two HTML document type table declarations available that you can include with your custom document types, one for SGML and one for XML. The files are available in the Arbortext-path/entities directory: html-tbl.dtd for SGML DTDs and xhtml-tbl.dtd for XML DTDs.

If you use the available HTML table DTD fragment (Arbortext-path/entities/html-tbl.dtd) in a custom document type, be aware that the File > Save as HTML menu option will write table markup that differs from the table markup in the source document. The appearance of the tables will be the same, but the markup will be different. For information on the attribute support of the File > Save as HTML menu option, see Published printing of HTML tables.

Arbortext Editor includes HTML 5 DTDs. These DTDs do not include declarations for presentational attributes. If you open a document in Arbortext Editor using these DTDs you will not be able to specify background color or justification for a cell, resize a row or column or table, or set cell margins on the table. The applicable fields in the Insert Table and Table Properties dialog boxes are disabled for those documents.