Shows how to use html tables to create coloured boxes.

1. Moodle: Coloured Boxes James Neill University of Canberra April, 2009

3. Boring

4. Long

5. Navigationally complex

6. http://learnonline.canberra.edu.au/course/view.php?id=1414

8. A box is simply a single-celled table.

9. Link

11. Make it difficult to subsequently edit html

12. Affect style of whole page

13. How to Although the Moodle WYSIWIG editing interface can be used, it is probably easier to use an external HTML editor and to edit HTML table code.

15. Example <table width=&quot;100%&quot; cellspacing=&quot;10&quot; cellpadding=&quot;10&quot; bordercolor=&quot;#111111&quot; border=&quot;1&quot; bgcolor=&quot;#ffcc99&quot; style=&quot;border-collapse: collapse;&quot;> <tr> <td width=&quot;100%&quot;>Hi, my name is <a href=&quot;http://learnonline.canberra.edu.au/user/view.php?id=47&quot;>James Neill</a>. </td> </tr> </table>

16. Also try ... embedding Google Spreadsheets

17. Also try ... embedding Google Spreadsheets <iframe width=&quot;480&quot; height=&quot;240&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pQnToDH18C8ZA_wxsiPqIBA&output=html&gid=0&single=true&range=A1:R11&quot;></iframe>