Makingtables

[mike b]

Hello,

I want to make a basic spreadsheet inside a web site. I need a series of
rows and columns. They will change from time to time. How can I put a table
in my web page and not have the size of the bos change automatically?

 

[Anne Troy]

Set the rows and columns to be EXACTLY XX pixels.
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~Anne Troy

www.OfficeArticles.com

 

[P@tty Ayers]

But that won't work. HTML table cells expand to accommodate whatever content
is put into them. This usually works just fine when tables are being used
for row-and-column data, as they're meant to be. What's the problem with
your spreadsheet page, Mike B, can you be more specific?

 

[Murray]

I want to make a basic spreadsheet inside a web site.

Does this mean you want to retain basic spreadsheet functionality in that
page? I think you're going to have to give that up. It would require more
javascript than I can provide you....

 

[Dwayne Conyers]

HTML table cells expand to accommodate whatever content
is put into them.

Even with a fixed width?

 

[Murray]

Soitenly. Widths are only minimum widths. Putting a 100px wide graphic
into a 50px wide cell will give you a 100px wide cell with a 50px width
specified in the markup. Loading text into that cell will not stretch its
width *UNLESS* it's text without spaces, i.e., a long URL or some enormous
German word, or a medical term like
pneumonicamicroscopicasilicavolcanicaniosis, which will blow the cell out.
8)

That's why some of us say to never use cell dimensions in tables at all
(other than 100%).