Colors and Layout of Tables

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Table Colors

Almost all color properties of tables (Color, BorderColor, BorderLightColor, CellBorderColor, CellBorderLightColor) are shown on the figure above.

There are some more color properties related to rules (lines between cells), see below.

Cells can be individually colored.

Table can be transparent, if its Color is set to clNone.

Borders can be hidden, if their widths are set to 0 (see BorderWidth and CellBorderWidth). These are default values.

Cell borders can be 3d, like on this figure, or flat (see BorderStyle and CellBorderStyle).

You can hide some sides of borders of some cells (see cells' VisibleBorders) and set individual color for cell border (cell.BorderColor and cell.BorderLightColor).

When table with invisible border is inserted in TRichViewEdit, such borders are shown as dotted gray lines (see also table Options).

Background Images

Tables and cells can have background images.

Borders and Spacing

Table Borders

The figure above shows properties affecting the table layout:

▪	CellHSpacing, CellVSpacing,

▪	BorderHSpacing, BorderVSpacing,

▪	BorderWidth,

▪	CellBorderWidth,

▪	CellHPadding, CellVPadding.

(The dotted red line around the cell contents is imaginary).

Rules

Rules are horizontal and/or vertical lines between cells, and may be also between table borders and outermost cells.

Table Rules

By default rules are invisible.

Tip: How to make 1 pixel border

RichView tables have HTML-style layout, so making one-pixel width borders is a trick.

Even if you set CellBorderWidth=1, CellHSpacing=CellVSpacing=0, 1-pixel width borders of adjacent cells will be visually combined in 2-pixel width borders.