[thelist] Layout using tables

Gregory Wostrel info at gwcreative.com
Wed Sep 3 08:49:57 CDT 2003


On Wednesday, September 3, 2003, at 09:24  AM, Sam Carter wrote:

> Using colspan="2" in the first row has the undesirable side effect of
> making the width of the first column of the 2nd row as wide as 
> possible.


Sam,

just set a value for the width of the column like so:

<table border="0">
         <tr>
           <td colspan="2">
             <h3>This is text that fills the width of the first row.... A
large paragraph of text.</h3>
           </td>
         </tr>
         <tr>
           <td width="200px" valign="top">An image usually goes 
here.</td>
           <td valign="top"><p><b>Some short text here.</b></p></td>
         </tr>
       </table>
percentages work as well, if you want to be fluid.


HTH,
Gregory Wostrel

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