Hi Sam, There are two good ways. You can set the col. width either to an absoulte number of pixels or to a percentage of the total width. The second way has the advantage automatically adjusting for different screen resolutions. Ken >From: "Sam Carter" <sam at nativeintelligence.com> >Reply-To: "thelist at lists.evolt.org" <thelist at lists.evolt.org> >To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org> >Subject: [thelist] Layout using tables >Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 09:24:09 -0400 >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Received: from acornparenting.org ([216.40.227.23]) by >mc8-f29.law1.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5600); Wed, 3 Sep >2003 06:39:24 -0700 >Received: (qmail 18954 invoked from network); 3 Sep 2003 13:24:24 -0000 >Received: from localhost (HELO www.acornparenting.org) (127.0.0.1) by 0 >with SMTP; 3 Sep 2003 13:24:24 -0000 >Received: (qmail 18919 invoked from network); 3 Sep 2003 13:24:12 -0000 >Received: from mail.orcsweb.com (HELO nativeintelligence.com) >(66.129.69.201) by 0 with SMTP; 3 Sep 2003 13:24:12 -0000 >Received: from VAIO600 [69.140.218.190] by nativeintelligence.com with >ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id AB71EF7500E4; Wed, 03 Sep 2003 09:24:01 -0400 >X-Message-Info: JGTYoYF78jHGn7p1Yi2LeiPbehSbhuWG >Return-Path: <sam at nativeintelligence.com> >Delivered-To: thelist at lists.evolt.org >Message-ID: <005001c3721e$adfa4030$6401a8c0 at VAIO600> >X-Priority: 3 (Normal) >X-MSMail-Priority: Normal >X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 >X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 >Importance: Normal >X-Note: This E-mail was scanned by Declude JunkMail (www.declude.com) >forspam. >Organization: Your Name Here >X-BeenThere: thelist at lists.evolt.org >X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 >Precedence: list >List-Id: thelist at lists.evolt.org <thelist.lists.evolt.org> >List-Help: <mailto:thelist-request at lists.evolt.org?subject=help> >List-Post: <mailto:thelist at lists.evolt.org> >List-Subscribe: ><http://lists.evolt.org/mailman/listinfo/thelist>,<mailto:thelist-request at lists.evolt.org?subject=subscribe> >List-Archive: <http://lists.evolt.org/pipermail/thelist> >List-Unsubscribe: ><http://lists.evolt.org/mailman/listinfo/thelist>,<mailto:thelist-request at lists.evolt.org?subject=unsubscribe> >Sender: thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org >Errors-To: thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org >X-OriginalArrivalTime: 03 Sep 2003 13:39:24.0554 (UTC) >FILETIME=[C9BB96A0:01C37220] > >Here's an HTML problem. > >I have a table with two columns > > <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 valign="top">An image usually goes here.</td> > <td valign="top"><p><b>Some short text here.</b></p></td> > </tr> > </table> > >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. > > >What's the best way to work around this effect? > >Sam > > >-- >* * Please support the community that supports you. * * >http://evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ > >For unsubscribe and other options, including the Tip Harvester >and archives of thelist go to: http://lists.evolt.org >Workers of the Web, evolt ! _________________________________________________________________ Get MSN 8 and enjoy automatic e-mail virus protection. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus