Can any of you HTML guru's tell me why I cant get my tables to center with IE ?
They seem to work fine with Netscape

I just can't get these "Table things" figured out
I want a navigation column on the left side but don't want to use frames
(I don't know how to do frames either)

After spending hours and hours and .....on it, I probably have the page so screwed up now I might just have to start over

check out the word "Welcome" with IE to see what I mean (http://macc.chevelles.net/index6.htm)

http://www.chevelles.com/forum/confused.gif


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Dean Call
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It's hard to keep on going
From day to day not knowing
Just what the end will be.
Take each day as you find it,
If things go wrong, don't mind it,
For each day leaves behind it
A chance to start anew.

Gertrude Ellgas

Hey there fellow Hot-dogger!

You can't do what you want using only one table, you will have to 'nest' them. Even with nesting, IE and Netscape have different views on some of the formatting.

I made a quick template to give you a few ideas. added a border=1 so you can see the formatting.
yes, tables are a mess to work with, our front page is a fine example of tables running out of control. Will have to redo it -- someday http://www.chevelles.com/forum/smile.gif

Also, your colors were wrong on alink="#0000CC" vlink="#CC0000" there were O's where zero's should be.

You can also get a good layout plan by opening a new document in hotdog and then clicking on 'insert' selecting table and then picking one.
Control+shift+T

http://chevelles.com/working/dean_table.html

I don't know HTML worth a damn. However, here's a pretty good site for learning and solving the problems. http://mvps.org/htmlhelpcenter/

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Bob McCormick
69 Malibu project

it's pretty simple.. you just have your center tags begin and end before the text it's supposed too center...



it should look like this



give that a try

Oh yeah.. Look at tables this way.. Figure out where you want them, and how you want them too look.. Then do the HTML as if it were it's own page forget the table all together.. Get your fonts, spacing, and paragraph all set. then PASTE the same code into your table.. It should make your HTML'ing go a bit easyer.. Also I've learned that Netscape seems too auto center tables and the like.. makes things a bit easyer, and harder at the same time.. Good Luck coding

[This message has been edited by normie (edited 10-04-2001).]

you can also view the source (netscape) or save the page as (IE) and take a look at the code for someone else's table. Then change the border from 0 to 1 so you can see what's going on.

Just remember to close every table tag so they are properly nested

Like this:
<Table>
<TR>
<TD>
<Table>
<TR>
<TD>something here</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>


Another way to do it, is to create separate tables and then cut and paste them inside the cell (TD) of another table.

take a look at my motorcycle clubs website and you can see how I'm using tables to do exactly the same thing you want to.
http://www.capitalcitymc.com

****Ok,
I just looked at your site,
you have the "Welcome" messege inside of a table row tag, you can't put anything there, it needs to be in it's own cell tag <td></td>

if you only use one cell width for the main portion of the page, then every cell has to be seperated by row tags. otherwise they will move beside each other, instead of above each other.


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Rick
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72 Malibu
98 Fatboy
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[This message has been edited by rlhelton (edited 10-04-2001).]