Help! Again..lol Table Prob!

[fou4swords]

hey,

Sorry to bother again...

I ran into another problem.. started doing my website using tables... instead of text boxes... Thing is... I want my table to have a Grayish border... However when viewed on Mozilla Firefox.. The table border becomes black!

He's how i set my borders.. In Frontpage.. I right click the table.. then go to table properties.. then i change the colour at the borders section..

And thats what i do.. It shows up on IE but not on Opera or Firefox.. a black border takes its place.. I've seen this done on other sites..

So could someone please enlighten me?

[fou4swords]

also.. Where is the "Edit" feature on this post thingy... I can't find it.. normally on forums its right next to the "Post Reply" button....

Well anyway.. I've got another problem... or question..

How do you make two tables side by side?

[fou4swords]

lol Me again...

I managed to get both tables inside a nested cell..to be both on the same line.. I messed with the controls.. Turns out you have to do that "Float" thing.... am i right? .. lol .. Now another problem haunts me... How do you create "more" tables inside a cell with already 2 tables... That blinking pointer thingy isn't there.. and when i click.. it doesn't select it...

[MandyJay]

Okay .....
From what I can "picture" from your description you are wanting table inside table inside table???

why??

I ask this becuase every time you use a table you have more and more non content code on your page .... if you are interested in the search engines finding you etc, you want as little code on your page as possible.

Maybe if we can see the page you are working on .... we can perhaps suggest a different way to layout what you want. On the other hand, maybe the way you are doing it is the only way to achieve what you want.

You dont want to use the float .... if you want two tables side by side, yes you need to put them each into a cell of a prior table, whcih I think is what you have said you have now done. Also to align text or tables inside cells use the cell properties ... right click inside cell and you can set both vertical and horiztonal alignment. So you can set your cell for, say, vertical top and horizontal center ... then when you insert your table into that cell, you get the alignment you want.

Colored borders. Your method is using inline styles and Firfox isnt that keen on that. Best route to go is to use external style sheet.

File/new page ......from the templates use a normal/blank style sheet. then with the stylesheet open you can set your table border. Either using the Format/styles or manually add once you get the hang of what you want.

You now have to apply that stylesheet to all your pages ... so with a page open click on format/stylesheet links and browse to where you saved your stylesheet. Also you can check the box that says "all pages" ..... now you will have to remove the border code you already have for the table as that will override your stylesheet.

check out this site, (http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_border.asp) it is great ... interactive CSS examples too.

MJ

[MandyJay]

Oh re the edit button for the forum, I think you are allowed so many minutes after posting to edit, then the edit is no longer available. So yes either post under the same thread, or if totally different question start a new one.

MJ