About conflicts in table formatting

When formatting tables, you can set properties for the entire table or for selected cells, rows, or columns in the table.

When a table property, such as background color or alignment, is set to one value for the entire table and another value for individual cells, cell formatting takes precedence over row formatting, which in turn takes precedence over table formatting.

The order of precedence for table formatting is as follows:

1. Cells

2. Rows

3. Table

   For example, if you set the background color for a single cell to blue, and then set the background color of the entire table to yellow, the blue cell does not change to yellow because cell formatting takes precedence over table formatting.

   Note: When you set properties for a column, Contribute changes the attributes of the td tag corresponding to each cell in the column.

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