HTML - Style Padding Inside Tables

Hey everyone, I'm new to these boards. Somewhat a newbie at web design, but I know basics. I'm looking to put 2 tables adjacent to each other inside another table. My problem is I can't get the tables to line up the way I want them to. I'll post a picture of how I want it to look, how it looks now and my code.

How I want it to look:


How it looks now:


I want the tables to line up at the top and re-size according to each other so they're always aligned at the top.

Code: coming in next 2 posts

How can I make textbox in cell[2,2] get its right border displayed and aligned with upper cell???

<table style="padding-right: 20px" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="1000px">
<tr>
<td width="25%">
<span id="Label9">label</span><br />
<input name="TextBox10" type="text" id="TextBox10" style="border-width:1px;border-style:solid;width:100%;" />
</td>
<td width="25%">
<span id="Label10">label</span><br />
<input name="TextBox11" type="text" id="TextBox11" style="border-width:1px;border-style:solid;width:100%;" />
</td>
<td width="25%">
<span id="Label11">label</span><br />
<input name="TextBox12" type="text" id="TextBox12" style="border-width:1px;border-style:solid;width:100%;" />
</td>
<td width="25%">
<span id="Label12">label</span><br />
<input name="TextBox13" type="text" id="TextBox13" style="border-width:1px;border-style:solid;width:100%;" />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 100%">
<tr>
<td style="padding-right: 15px" width="50%">
<span id="Label18" style="display:inline-block;width:100%;vertical-align: top; text-align: left">label</span><br />
<input name="TextBox19" type="text" id="TextBox19" style="border-width:1px;border-style:solid;width:100%;" /></td>
<td align="right" width="50%" >
<span id="Label19" style="display:inline-block;width:100%;vertical-align: top; text-align: left">label</span><br />
<input name="TextBox20" type="text" id="TextBox20" style="border-width:1px;border-style:solid;width:100%;" /></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
<td>
<span id="Label20">label</span><br />
<input name="TextBox21" type="text" id="TextBox21" style="border-width:1px;border-style:solid;width:100%;" />
</td>
<td colspan="2">
<span id="Label21">label</span><br />
<input name="TextBox22" type="text" id="TextBox22" style="border-width:1px;border-style:solid;width:100%;" />
</td>
</tr>
</table>

hi everybody,
i have a problem displaying an html page that contains nested tables, all in a div.
now the testing page that i present is a simple html, which works just fine in FF, chrome, safari and opera. sadly, it doesnt in IE7 (didnt test other IE versions).
the goal is to make the scroll of the div reflect the width of the tables. i dont know what is causing this, maybe there's something missing in my code, or just an IE bug, perhaps...
Anyway, i appreciate you reading this and thanks for your help, if any.

Hi guys,

I've been frustrated for awhile trying to fix three of my problems. I just started making a site for myself today, the specific one is http://www.bcsticketsnow.com/rosebowl.html

Anyway, I've got three problems, and appreciate any help anyone can offer on any of them:

1. I'm new to frames, and am told to stay clear of it. But I don't know php, so this is the only way I know to make a header, middle and footer on all 20 pages that I'm going to have where I only need to edit one to change all.

So I have 3 frames in the frameset, header, mainrosebowl, and footer. I understand that cols="220,*,100" will make the header 220 pixels, the footer 100 px, and the middle part the rest of the window. But I'm trying to figure out a way to have it go deeper than the window. As you can tell, I've got a scroll bar on that middle frame. I want that frame to extend to more than 100% and push the footer below the visible window. So I'm really looking for a big scroll bar for the entire window to scroll down, not a mini scroll bar just for the middle frame. Is this possible? Having the cols add up to only the size of the window isn't what I'm looking for.


2. In the header frame, I've got that drop down menu (says "Bowl Events"). When I put the form in for the drop down menu, it kind of expanded the height of the table. It had less space before in that row of the table with the blue background. When I put the form in there, it kinda messed up the spacing. I essentially want to delete that space below bowl events to make the height of the row of that table like half the size. Any ideas?


3. For that same drop down menu, I'm trying to target each link in that menu to open up a new window (like target="_top"). But putting it after <option value="URL" target=..."> does nothing. Am I supposed to put it in the javascript? Here's what I have now:

<script type="text/javascript">
function goToPage(dd) {
var ind = dd.selectedIndex;
if (ind == 0) { return; }
var url = dd.options[ind].value
document.location=url;
}
</script>


<form>
<select name="eventlist" onChange="goToPage(this); return false;" size="1" style="border: 0; BACKGROUND: navy; COLOR: white; FONT-FAMILY:
arial; FONT-SIZE: 15px; font-weight: bold;">
<option value="">Bowl Events</option>

<option value="http://www.bcsticketsnow.com/bcschampionship.html" onclick="header.location.href='_top'">BCS Championship</option>

<option value="http://www.bcsticketsnow.com/rosebowl.html">2009 Rose Bowl</option>

<option value="http://www.bcsticketsnow.com/orangebowl.html">2009 Orange Bowl</option>

<option value="http://www.bcsticketsnow.com/fiestabowl.html">2009 Fiesta Bowl</option>

<option value="http://www.bcsticketsnow.com/sugarbowl.html">2009 Sugar Bowl</option>

<option value="http://www.bcsticketsnow.com/chickfilabowl.html">2009 Chick-Fil-A Bowl</option>

<option value="http://www.bcsticketsnow.com/capitalonebowl.html">2009 Capital One Bowl</option>

<option value="http://www.bcsticketsnow.com/cottonbowl.html">2009 Cotton Bowl</option>

<option value="http://www.bcsticketsnow.com/holidaybowl.html">2009 Holiday Bowl</option>

</select></form>

I know from personal experience, the specs and some great posts that DIV's are not allowed inside of P tags. And it's normal to be so, but what about inline-blocks?

I could simply use SPAN or some other inline element which works inside the P, but IE only renders natural blocks as inline-block. Meaning if it's an inline element it will work in Firefox but not IE, if it's a block the other way arround.

So how do I solve this quanundrum?

Either I need an element which is a natural block in IE and is allowed inside a P by the specs, or I'll use DIV instead of P, but I would much rather avoid this.