Table problem

[Rickie]

hello, I have been trying to use tables to seperate parts of my web pages, I set all my tables but when Ii view then in a browser or in preview they all push to the right hand side of the page and go really thin, I messed with the alignment, played about with both cell properties and a table properties, can anyone help me out here please?

[MandyJay]

Hi Rickie,
Without seeing the page, a little hard to really know what the problem is, do you have a url?? Presumably the tables themselves are aligned centre, or wherever you want them.
What have you got in your tables, if you have empty cells, that can throw the width of table out??

[Rickie]

I have 1 table, then I inserted another 2 columns, so it like divided into 3 section equally across the page, the first column pushes the other to that right side and makes them really small, leaving me right 1 really big column and 2 really small columns when I wanted 3 equal, I dont have anything in them at the moment, I have tried putting text in, but it still pushed them up, the only thing the seems to stop it (sometimes) is inserting pictures, this kind of stop them pushing up any more, but I dont want pictures in, the site is not online because of that fact that it all pushed to one side.:?:

[MandyJay]

Hi Rickie,
Check all your cell widths - make sure they add up to the table width and you have not accidentally set 150% when you mean say 150pixels . You should have something in the cells going across, other wise it can do funny things - just shove any old text in for now, covering a couple of lines. Check your cell properties, make sure the box tha says "no wrap" is NOT checked, if it is checked then text will just keep on going and push the cell out.

Maybe someone else can throw some more info in for you.

[MandyJay]

Hi Rickie
Just a suggestions, but a lot of us sign up for free site with say, Tripod - they have 2002 extensions - altahough you have to enable them yourself from their site - then we upload our web to that - regardless of how few pages or what mistakes are on them - that way we can then just post the url and get people to take a look at the code, also we can download the page and play around with it to see what helps ..... only a suggestion but you may find that useful in the future.

[BillySielu]

highlight all your cells and make sure there are no properties set for any of them... then in table properites set the width you want.. they will then start equal.

[afterwards]

Highlight one row of cells, click the right key on the mouse. Click "distribute all cells equally" Then readjust to the widths you want.

bev