force a cell to contain a fixed number of rows

[Mark]

I've got the original FPX (I think) that comes with Win98 (ver. 2.0.2.1118).

Is there any way to force a cell to contain a fixed number of rows?

There is a setting for cell properties that allows you to change this
(number of rows spanned) but when I set the number of rows to more than 1 it
moves the cell below over into another column (???).

Thankx

 

[Murray]

You cannot just change the 'spanning' of a cell. You can MERGE two
vertically adjacent cells, but you cannot take a table with 2 rows and 2
columns and then change one of those cells to have a row/colspan of 2. In
trying to cope with this, FP is likely adding an extra row or column.

Can you show me the code after you have done this?

 

[Murray]

Having said that, I see that you can do exactly that thing in FP2003, and it
creates a broken table by adding a "virtual new cell" to that row, and
pushing the rest to the right -

BEFORE
<table border="1" width="100%" id="table1">
<tr>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>

AFTER
<table border="1" width="100%" id="table1">
<tr>
<td rowspan="2">&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>

This table is now completely broken and invalid. To be valid it would have
to be like this -

<table border="1" width="100%" id="table1">
<tr>
<td rowspan="2">&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>

I wonder why FP does that?