Okay. I've just never heard the term before.
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Tom "Pepper" Willett
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
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About FrontPage 2003:
http://office.microsoft.com/home/office.aspx?assetid=FX01085802
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| <table></table>
| <table></table>
| <table></table>
|
| A stack of three separate tables....
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| Murray
| ============
|
| | > Murray:
| >
| > I'm not familiar with the term "stack separate tables". Could you
please
| > expound?
| >
| > Thanks,
| > --
| > ===
| > Tom "Pepper" Willett
| > Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
| > ---
| > About FrontPage 2003:
| >
http://office.microsoft.com/home/office.aspx?assetid=FX01085802
| > ===
| > | > | Here's even better advice.
| > |
| > | Stack separate tables.
| > |
| > | Table1 with one column/row configuration
| > | Table2 with a new column/row configuration
| > | Table3 with the original column/row configuration
| > |
| > | This is a better solution since none of the cells will have a row- or
| > | colspan applied, and since you will not have nested tables (although
the
| > | ones Kevin recommends are gentle ones). Nested tables can get pretty
| > | complex pretty fast and can slow your browser rendering WAY down.
| > |
| > | Separate stacked tables do not have this problem and are quite simple
to
| > | maintain.
| > |
| > | --
| > | Murray
| > | ============
| > |
| > | | > | > good advice, thanks
| > | >
| > | > Kevin Spencer a écrit dans le message
| > | > <#
[email protected]>...
| > | >>Hi Pierre,
| > | >>
| > | >>The problem is that a table has a fixed number of columns, and that
| > when
| > | > you
| > | >>merge cells, you are, in essence, merging columns in a row. So, when
| > you
| > | >>split the merged columns, you are, in essence, adding extra columns
to
| > the
| > | >>whole table, and merging the ones that were not previously merged.
the
| > | >>column widths in each resulting column, merged or not, are fixed to
| > either
| > | > a
| > | >>column or more than one column's width.
| > | >>
| > | >>What you probably need to do is to merge the columns that you
| > originally
| > | >>merged, leaving a "hole," and then put an entire table into the
whole.
| > The
| > | >>nested table can then have as many columns as you wish, and they
will
| > not
| > | >>correspond to any columns in the parent table.
| > | >>
| > | >>--
| > | >>HTH,
| > | >>
| > | >>Kevin Spencer
| > | >>Microsoft MVP
| > | >>.Net Developer
| > | >>The sun never sets on
| > | >>the Kingdom of Heaven
| > | >>
| > | >>| > | >>> Hi all,
| > | >>>
| > | >>> I have a table with multiple row and 5 columns.
| > | >>>
| > | >>> On a few rows, i woul like to be able to put more columns.
| > | >>> I have merge the cells on that row and then split the cells to 8.
| > | >>>
| > | >>> My problem is that when i try to fix the beginning and end of the
| > row
| > | >>> by moving hte borders, i cannot place them where i want.
| > | >>> Looks like they are related to the positon of the row above.
| > | >>>
| > | >>> I there a way to place them freely like shift-click or something
| > else
| > | >>>
| > | >>> regards,
| > | >>>
| > | >>> pierre
| > | >>>
| > | >>>
| > | >>
| > | >>
| > | >
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