Table Width Problems

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Robert Miller

I'm still having trouble controlling the screen width of my tables.

If you look at http://www.rjma.com/rfps/ed19.htm you'll see that I have three tables, each with table width's set at 70 percent. The middle (largest table) spans out to the right well beyond the beginning and ending tables

Why

Bob
 
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Steve Easton

You have mixed fixed width <td width="151" elements
and percentage <td width="68%" elements in the same table.
Example;
<td width="151" valign="top" align="center" bgcolor="#008000" height="64">
<b><font face="Arial" size="2" color="#FFFFFF">Toyota</font></b></td>
<td width="68%" valign="top" align="justify" height="64"><b>

You need to make them all one or the other.

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Robert Miller said:
I'm still having trouble controlling the screen width of my tables.

If you look at http://www.rjma.com/rfps/ed19.htm you'll see that I have
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three tables, each with table width's set at 70 percent. The middle
(largest table) spans out to the right well beyond the beginning and ending
tables.
 
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David Berry

You need to redo all your table and cell widths so they are the same. Just
looking at some of the code I see table cells set to 95 pixels, 151 pixels
under that cell, the table is at 86 pixels then next one is set to 68% and
so on.

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Robert Miller said:
I'm still having trouble controlling the screen width of my tables.

If you look at http://www.rjma.com/rfps/ed19.htm you'll see that I have
Click to expand...
three tables, each with table width's set at 70 percent. The middle
(largest table) spans out to the right well beyond the beginning and ending
tables.
 
C

Chet

message
| I'm still having trouble controlling the screen width of my
tables.
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| If you look at http://www.rjma.com/rfps/ed19.htm you'll see
that I have three tables, each with table width's set at 70
percent. The middle (largest table) spans out to the right well
beyond the beginning and ending tables.
|
| Why?
|
| Bob

First, you should declare a DOCTYPE and eliminate the markup
errors.

The second table's width is set to 86% and the three <td>/s in
the first <tr> add up to more than 100% (the first no width is
set, second is set to 100% and the third is set to 95px).

hth
 
S

Steve Easton

Uh oh.
None of my webs have a DOCTYPE declared.
does that mean they'll stop working??
 
T

Thomas A. Rowe

A DOCTYPE will not fix your tables.

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Robert Miller

This table WAS working perfectly. Something happened to cause the width problem. Is there anyway to find the offending code?

Bob
 
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Thomas A. Rowe

Select all cells, then remove the width, then select each column and set the
values in %. The total must equal 100% of the table width.

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Robert Miller said:
This table WAS working perfectly. Something happened to cause the width
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problem. Is there anyway to find the offending code?
 
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David Berry

And you would switch to HTML View to add it to the top line of your page.
Ex:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML>
 
R

Robert Miller

No, I believe something else wrong is going on.

I removed all the cell widths. I then set the table to 70%

Next, I set each of the columns to 10%; 50%; and 10% respectively

No change in the table resulted! (Recall, I'm trying to make all three stacked tables the same width.

Go back and look at http://www.rjma.com/rfps/ed19.ht

Still perplexed

Bob
 
D

David Berry

Check your code again, switch to HTML View and do a search for Width.
There's on cell set like this:

width="70%""843"

Also, your images are pretty wide and they could be pushing the table cells
over.

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Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
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Robert Miller said:
No, I believe something else wrong is going on.

I removed all the cell widths. I then set the table to 70%.

Next, I set each of the columns to 10%; 50%; and 10% respectively.

No change in the table resulted! (Recall, I'm trying to make all three
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stacked tables the same width.)
 
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Robert Miller

In fact, if you look at a similar table I created (that is formatted the way I want it), I've mixed various cell width properties in the same second table e.g., % and pixels!

This properly working table can be found at http://www.rjma.com/rfps/health19.htm

As I mentioned before, seems to me that something else is wrong.

Bob
 
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Bob Lehmann

Your very first table starts

<table border="0" width="900" id="table5" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" cellspacing="0"
cellpadding="10">Bob Lehmann"Robert Miller"
In fact, if you look at a similar table I created (that is formatted the
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way I want it), I've mixed various cell width properties in the same second
table e.g., % and pixels!
 
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Robert Miller

Thanks, all, for your help. I finally fixed my table problem by setting all table and cell widths to pixels rather than percents and combinations of percents and pixels.

Bob
 
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