outwest

I can easily make great tables and manipulate them in openoffice design mode
(didnt know I could do this on the fly so easily used to hand code all my websites, amazing I have been doing html so long the wrong way and the slow way)

The height of the tables though, is a pain. I always end up with text with lots of empty space underneath it with no way that I know of to shrink that gap of space.

I have also tried putting tables inside tables, Looks great when I do the design , but after I save it, and re open it? its a huge mess all the layout gets jumbled , its the damndest thing not sure what it doesnt like but it sure doesnt like what I am doing.

Suggestions on table cell height would be appreciated

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outwest

I guess if I dont post a thread titled "
please review my site"

nobody cares anymore

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tryinhere

sure we care
but we would need to look at your code, my guess with out seeing it is you have
try channging that to a posting the code would help

In most cases there no spacing or padding and your table will auto adjust if left set at one

if your working on a cell inside of the table then that setting is as above

I spy with my little eye. (•)

jhonybravo222

HTML Tables I hope it would be helpful to sort out your problem.

Brandon Tanner

Tables were never meant to be used for webpage design / layout purposes. It's best to use CSS div's for that.

Web Page Layouts Shouldn't Use Tables - Avoid Tables for Web Page Layout

outwest

Thing I like about tables Is I can manipulate them realtime, without hand coding them
I can just pull the borders left and right in my html editor and the code auto configures itself.

Can this be done with CSS?

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Brandon Tanner

Not with any software that I'm aware of. Pretty much all of the graphical "drag and drop" HTML editors I've used in the past produce pretty bad code (ie "non standards-compliant"). With the exception of maybe Dreamweaver.

I've been hand coding sites from scratch for the past several years, so I haven't really used any of the "drag and drop" editors in a while... so there may be some decent ones out there now, I don't know.

Whatever you use though, just make sure it produces clean, standards-compliant code (there is a good article about that here). If not, your website will look good in some browsers, and bad in others, and you will have a constant headache trying to figure out why.

Another thing you can do is use pre-existing website templates, and modify them to suit your needs. Most of the newer XHTML/CSS templates out there are fairly standards-compliant. Modifying templates is not quite as simple as "drag and drop", but it's much easier than learning to code a site from scratch!