Direct access to table cell properties

[maxwyss]

In tht project, I had to take over the InDesign source documents for some forms. Note that I do not have much experience with InDesign, so this may be very elementary.

Now, I have several problems with the tables:

• in one case, I have to add another row (which worked); however, despite all the properties I checked, the bottom border line does not show up. 

• Some table cells do have a background color, which I have to change, but I can't find out how to access intividual cells (Rows and Columns do have properties, but how do I display (and modify) for example the properties of the cell formed by the third column and the fifth row?

Thank you very much in advance for any hint.

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

Google is your best friend:

https://www.indesignjs.de/extendscriptAPI/indesign-latest/#Cell.html

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

As ID is almost wholly style-driven... You will probably want to keep the Table, Table Styles and Cell Styles palettes open and get familiar with them and how they represent and affect the current table and cell. There is lots of functionality buried in there. 

About all that may not be evident after a little study is that Cell styles override any base Table styles or formatting.

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

Right, I thought it's a scripting question... 

About all that may not be evident after a little study is that Cell styles override any base Table styles or formatting.

By @James Gifford—NitroPress

Just to add - CellStyles behave in a similar way to CharStyles that override ParaStyle formatting. 

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

Good observation. I tend to think of tables as more hierarchical, but the two cases really are the same. 

In export (HTML, EPUB) there is a third layer, the equivalent of <tr>, but it's feeble and only controls a few things. From inside ID, it's only the two levels.