Adobe InDesign CS3 - Manual (Page 535)

INDESIGN CS3
User Guide
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Tag text in tables
When you tag a table for XML, you create a table element as well as one cell element for each cell in the table. The
cell elements are child elements of the table element, and are created automatically.
1 Click in the table and choose Table > Select > Table.
2 Select a tag for the table in the Tags panel.
InDesign creates a cell element for each cell in the table (you can display them in the Structure pane). The tag applied
to table cell elements depends on your Autotag default settings.
3 If needed, tag table cells with a different tag.
For example, you can tag the first-row cells with a different tag to identify them as heading cells. To apply tags to
cells, select the actual table cells in your document, and then select a tag. (Selecting cells in the table also selects the
corresponding cell elements in the Structure pane.)
You can also tag a table by selecting it and then clicking the Autotag icon in the Tags panel. The
Table
tag (or another
tag of your choice) is applied immediately to the table, according to your Autotag default settings.
Specify Autotag defaults
When you select a text frame, table, table cells, or an image, and then click the Autotag icon in the Tags panel,
InDesign applies a default tag to the item you selected. You can specify these default tags in the Tagging Preset
Options dialog box.
Note: InDesign applies a default tag when you create an element that requires a parent element, but doesn’t yet have
one. For example, if you tag text within a text frame but the frame itself isn’t tagged, InDesign assigns the frame a tag
according to the Tagging Preset Options. The capability to apply default tags helps InDesign maintain correct XML
structure.
1 Choose Tagging Preset Options from the Tags panel menu.
2 Choose a default tag for text frames, tables, table cells, and images.
If the tag you need isn’t listed, you can choose New Tag from the menu and create a tag.
Show or hide tag markers and tagged frames
Tag markers are brackets that appear on the page around text that has been tagged. Show tag markers to see where
titles, headings, and other text has been tagged on a page. Tagged frames indicate where items such as text frames,
tables, and images have been tagged. The color assigned to a tag in the Tags panel determines the color of tag markers
and tagged frames. Tag markers and tagged frames only appear in Normal view.