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title: Defining and Using Table Styles
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# Defining and Using Table Styles

Apply table styles, such as borders and backgrounds, to the rows, columns, and cells in your HTML and JSON  tables.

## Overview

Overview Apple News Format lets you apply styles to individual rows, columns, and cells in your HTML and JSON data tables. In addition, you can apply text styles to text in table cells. In an HTML table, you format the text using HTML. In a JSON table, you use FormattedText as the value of a key-value pair in a record in RecordStore. The DataDescriptor for that record must have a dataType of text. To set the style for the rows, columns, and cells in a table, you use the TableStyle object in the ComponentStyle the table uses. The following table lists the styles that you can apply to the rows, columns, and cells in tables. All can be conditional styles that Apple News Format applies to parts of the table that meet certain criteria, such as odd-numbered rows or a cell in a specific location.  |   |   |   |

## See Also

### Table Styles

- [TableStyle](applenewsformat/tablestyle.md)
- [TableRowStyle](applenewsformat/tablerowstyle.md)
- [ConditionalTableRowStyle](applenewsformat/conditionaltablerowstyle.md)
- [TableRowSelector](applenewsformat/tablerowselector.md)
- [TableColumnStyle](applenewsformat/tablecolumnstyle.md)
- [ConditionalTableColumnStyle](applenewsformat/conditionaltablecolumnstyle.md)
- [TableColumnSelector](applenewsformat/tablecolumnselector.md)
- [TableCellStyle](applenewsformat/tablecellstyle.md)
- [ConditionalTableCellStyle](applenewsformat/conditionaltablecellstyle.md)
- [TableCellSelector](applenewsformat/tablecellselector.md)
- [TableBorder](applenewsformat/tableborder.md)
- [TableStrokeStyle](applenewsformat/tablestrokestyle.md)
- [Padding](applenewsformat/padding.md)
- [FormattedText](applenewsformat/formattedtext.md)