# Functional Test
Web Browser: Web View (HTML)

Tables

Objective: Tests the Simple HTML Table Model.

Syntax: The Simple Table Model is the table model that most browsers currently support. The model is from the HTML 3.2 Draft specifications which describes tables in terms of table cells grouped into row-based cell layouts.

Based on the simple table model, you can create a wide variety of tables with only five tags:

1. the <TABLE> tag, which encapsulates a table and its elements in the HTML document's body content;
2. the <TR> tag, which defines a table row;
3. the <TH> tag, which define the table header;
4. the <TD> tag, which define the table data cell;
5. the <CAPTION> tag, which defines a table title (caption);

Each tag has one or more required and optional attributes, some of which affect not only the tag itself, but related tags.

Procedure: Click each link in the Special Case column to verify that the expected results match the resulting display.

Special Case | Expected Results
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Table with background color

- Verify what happens when you use the Edit|Preferences|Appearance|Color checkbox.

Table with Mixed Widths

- Verify what happens when you have mixed absolute and relative table cell widths?.

Large Table

- Verify that you can load a table with a large number of rows & columns.

Character Styles inside Tables

- Verify that tables can contain character styles.[from Character Styles Functional Test Case]

Images inside Tables

- Verify that images can be contained inside tables.[from Image Functional Test Case]

Multicolumns inside a Table

- Verify that multicolumns can be contained inside a table.[from Multicolumn Functional Test Case]

Table with Plug-ins

- Verify that multimedia plug-ins can be contained inside a table.

Nested Tables

- Verify that tables can be nested inside other tables.

Invalid Table Tags

- Verify that table will NOT crash when closing table tags were missing.

Image/table overlapping

- Verify that Image and table text should NOT co-exist in the same space.

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Created 5/13/96 by Ronald Greti
Modified 11/03/96 by Ronald Greti
Modified 12/08/96 by Robert Wehrfritz
Modified 03/04/97 by Chitra Natarajan
Modified 1/13/98 by Fenella Gor