Hey all.

Normally when I use tables they tend to stay the size I put them. But one table has decided to ignore that and resize at it's pleasure like so:

This Page

I want to get it to stay to around a width of say 600 pixels but it won't have it. Any help would be great. Thanks,

Manson

seems to be working fine... in firefox at leaste
same with IE
what exactly are you talking about :X

Looking at your page source, I would venture to guess that the width of the tables INSIDE that tables are forcing it beyond the 600 and I went hunting for the answer and here is what I found: Advanced HTML Tables

Netscape Busts the Page

Suddenly your page is far wider than you ever intended, and in Netscape 4 half of it disappears off the edge of the screen or appears lower down as an extra row.

This is a tricky issue, but the usual problem is that you've specified a "wild card" column with its <TD> set at 100% width, alongside other columns with specified widths in pixels, all within a table that also has a specified width, probably 100%. Explorer does its best to deal with this, but Navigator tries to give the 100% width column the same width as the entire window. You may be able to get around this by leaving out the table width, which will default to 100%. But it's a bodge, and you will certainly need graphics or spacer gifs within the other columns, otherwise they'll get squeezed.

Now remember this is Netscape being discussed BUT Firefox is built on the same coding foundation as Netscape. Liz

I normally start my design with one table (one column and one row) that serves as my 'holder'. I can then size that table to say '600 pixels' and fill it with other tables that are all sized at 100% but are held in place by the outer table....

While doing some research on this, I cam across this page: XHTML media type test whiched proved rather intersting and points out that some of the lesser used browsers were far more strick that IE even now. Maybe that will change with IE7. This page that proceeds might also shed some light: HTML and XHTML Frequently Answered Questions

And when I ran the guestbook thru the XHTML Basic 1.0 validator, I came across THESE errors which may explain the problem:
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Line 24, column 15: there is no attribute "width"

<table width=" 50%" border="0">

✉
#

Line 24, column 28: there is no attribute "border"

<table width="50%" border=" 0">

✉
#

Line 26, column 16: there is no attribute "width"

<td width=" 20%"><div align="center"><b><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2" face

Something else I found that every web master/designer who wants to be in business needs to consider: XML: Structuring Data for the Web: An Introduction Now granted the article IS 6 years old but the web site has articles all the way to today.

search engines - With XML content markup, queries are more likely to retrieve relevant files due to contextual information. Search engines could retrieve a specific portion of file; they also could be much faster if the added context eliminates numerous irrelevant matches.

Liz

Originally Posted by southernlady

While doing some research on this, I cam across this page: XHTML media type test whiched proved rather intersting and points out that some of the lesser used browsers were far more strick that IE even now. Maybe that will change with IE7. This page that proceeds might also shed some light: HTML and XHTML Frequently Answered Questions

And when I ran the guestbook thru the XHTML Basic 1.0 validator, I came across THESE errors which may explain the problem:
#

Line 24, column 15: there is no attribute "width"

<table width=" 50%" border="0">

✉
#

Line 24, column 28: there is no attribute "border"

<table width="50%" border=" 0">

✉
#

Line 26, column 16: there is no attribute "width"

<td width=" 20%"><div align="center"><b><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2" face

Something else I found that every web master/designer who wants to be in business needs to consider: XML: Structuring Data for the Web: An Introduction Now granted the article IS 6 years old but the web site has articles all the way to today.

Liz

Nice info, I have learnt a lot..

thanx for sharing

Kashyap