HTML - Table Help! The Table Is Too Big For The Content :(

Hello everyone,

I am in deep trouble... :-( ...

For some reason Safari does not adapt the table height to the content size.

All other browsers automatically adapt the table height to the content size, but Safari doesn't, and the result of the website I am developing, when seen on Safari, is a mess...

Can someone tell me how to make Safari adapt automatically adapt table height to content size?

Thank you very much in advance and anyway...

Cheers,

John

Helllo all,

I'm hoping someone with more HTML skills than I have can see where my problem is with trying to modify a pre-built website. I have an area at the top of my webpage where I'm trying to just add a small iframe that will contain a link to a related website. What happened when I added this in what I thought was the right place, is that it appeared in place of where other content was supposed to be. I then tried to contain the problem by creating a table, and given that each of the two existing pieces of content were in div blocks, I put each div block within a table data element (td). Unfortunately, even with specified column widths, the best of the results I've achieved results in my site search content having the button get pushed onto a new line and thus almost invisible, leaving the text input box in place. It's as if the PHP stuff in that div block is somehow pushing the browser to considerably widen the first cell unless I restrict it's width. The site you can see this on is:

http://debtfreenewsblog.com

The site is somewhat slow - takes 30 to 45 seconds to load (a separate issue, but if you happen to see why, let me know), but once it does, you can use view source and see the very first table and you'll see the resulting HTML. Dreamweaver's design view doesn't do anything to indicate why there's a problem, and kind of hides reality from me. There is a style sheet, or perhaps even more than one, for the site, and as I'm not familiar with exactly how that works together with everything else, that may well be where the problem is. Any and all help will be appreciated. My objective is to just get the search button to come back to the same line as the text input box.

Steve
(aka sgmunson)

I would like to know if there is such a thing as a tag within a table, that can collapse if the next table within that prior one gets too big to center?

Here is an example of a part of my code:

Code:

      <table style="width:757; border-style:solid; border-width:thin; margin:0 0 15px 0">
       <tr><td class="spb-category" width="750" style="text-align:left;" colspan="3">Title of this category</td></tr>       
       <tr>
        <td valign="top" width="33%">
         <table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
          <tr><td width="100%" onmouseover="this.style.background='#ddddff';" onmouseout="this.style.background='#ffffff';"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td class="spb-book"><a href="product_info.php?products_id=103">large size book title with author</a></td></tr><tr><td class="spb-author">Author</td></tr></table></td></tr>
          <tr><td width="100%" onmouseover="this.style.background='#ddddff';" onmouseout="this.style.background='#ffffff';"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td class="spb-book"><a href="product_info.php?products_id=187">small sized book</a></td></tr><tr><td class="spb-author">Author</td></tr></table></td></tr>
          <tr><td width="100%" onmouseover="this.style.background='#ddddff';" onmouseout="this.style.background='#ffffff';"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td class="spb-book"><a href="product_info.php?products_id=197">small sized book</a></td></tr><tr><td class="spb-author">Author</td></tr></table></td></tr>
         </table>        </td>
        <td valign="top" width="33%">
         <table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
          <tr><td width="100%" onmouseover="this.style.background='#ddddff';" onmouseout="this.style.background='#ffffff';"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td class="spb-book"><a href="product_info.php?products_id=101">small sized book</a></td></tr><tr><td class="spb-author">Author</td></tr></table></td></tr>
          <tr><td width="100%" onmouseover="this.style.background='#ddddff';" onmouseout="this.style.background='#ffffff';"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td class="spb-book"><a href="product_info.php?products_id=188">small sized book</a></td></tr><tr><td class="spb-author">Author</td></tr></table></td></tr>
          <tr><td width="100%" onmouseover="this.style.background='#ddddff';" onmouseout="this.style.background='#ffffff';"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td class="spb-book"><a href="product_info.php?products_id=120">Medium sized boot title</a></td></tr><tr><td class="spb-author">Author</td></tr></table></td></tr>
         </table>        </td>
        <td valign="top" width="33%">
         <table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
          <tr><td width="100%" onmouseover="this.style.background='#ddddff';" onmouseout="this.style.background='#ffffff';"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td class="spb-book"><a href="product_info.php?products_id=102">a very long title of a book which includes the author</a></td></tr><tr><td class="spb-author">Author</td></tr></table></td></tr>
         </table>
        </td>
       </tr>
      </table>

1. I want to center each column so that the first letter of each book title is lined-up, but that the longest title on each column has equal space on both left and right.

2. If you look at each column, the width is about 245px. With regard to the first book title in the first column, I have 50px that is extra, therefore I'd like to automatically add 25px to the front of each one of the books for that column.

3. On the second column, there is about 80px extra, therefore I'd like to auto-add 40px to the front of each book in that column.

My problem is that I don't want the column centered individually because then I will lose the straight line that I'd like each book to be on top of each other as it starts the line.

I tried:
style="margin-left:20px"
and
style="padding-left:20px"
but when the title got too long it would not auto-collapse the left side, I want it to collapse!

I want one tag that I can insert evenly on every section to get the push to the right an even amount of spaces for every book on each column.

If it comes down to it, I wouldn't mind sacrificing that each column gets auto aligned to what is necessary for its own column. So if I have to use one number, say 30px, for the whole webpage, then ok, I'd do it.

My problem is that sometimes the 30px empty filler space for the left, in order to push the title to the right, is not enough space for a very long title and it winds up sending half the title to the next line, which I don't want.

This code is a list of books that spans about 20 categories and about 400 book titles.

Thanks in advance for any help you might offer.

The table itself is working fine, but the size of each cell is not correct in Firefox.
Here is a screenshot of what is happening:

http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/1938/tabletroubles.gif


Here is the head of my page, the css for the table is he

HTML Code:

<style type="text/css">
#cat table {border:0px solid #333333; cell-padding:0; cell-spacing:0; align=center} 
#cat tr {align=center}
#cat td {font-size: 13px; font-family=tahoma; font-weight: bold; padding: 0px; border:0px solid #333333; align=center;} 
#cat td a {text-decoration: none; color:#757575; background-color: white; display:block; height=23; background-image: url(linkbg1.gif); align=center;} 
#cat td a:hover {background-color: #333333; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;color: #ffffff; background-image: url(linkbg2.gif); align=center;} 
</style>

and here is the table code, located in the body of the page:

HTML Code:

<div style="Height:53px; overflow:auto; width:900px; position:absolute; top:0; left:0">


<TABLE bgcolor=#333333 cellspacing=0; cellpadding=0;><tr><td>

<div id="cat"> 

<table width=900; cellpadding:0px; cellspacing:0px> 
<tr align=center> 
<td width=20%>
<font face=tahoma><a href="home.html">Home</a></font>
</td>
<td width=20%><center><font face=tahoma><a href="openings.html" target="_top">Openings</a></font></center></td> 
<td width=20%><center><font face=tahoma><a href="dance.html" target="_top">Dance</a></font></center></td> 
<td width=20%><center><font face=tahoma><a href="projects.html" target="_top">Projects</a></font></center></td> 
<td width=20%><center><font face=tahoma><a href="vocaloid.html" target="_top">Vocaloid</a></font></center></td> 
</tr> 
<tr> 
<td width=20%><center><font face=tahoma><a href="fanflashes.html" target="_top">Fanflashes</a></font></center></td> 
<td width=20%><center><font face=tahoma><a href="caramelldansen.html" target="_top">Caramelldansen</a></font></center></td> 
<td width=20%><center><font face=tahoma><a href="cosplay.html" target="_top">Cosplay</a></font></center></td>
<td width=20%><center><font face=tahoma><a href="endings.html" target="_top">Endings</a></center></td>
<td width=20%><center><font face=tahoma><a href="anime.html" target="_top">Anime Episodes</a></font></font></center></td> 
</tr> 
</table>


</div> 
</td></tr></table> 
</div>

A table is nested within another table. The table on the outside has no content, it is there to make a gray border around everything else.

If you look at the table in firefox & internet explorer, you'll see that in IE- the table is much thicker than in firefox. How can i make it so that the table in Firefox will have the same thickness as the one in IE? I could really use some help. Thanks!

Here is an image depicting the trouble I'm having:



I want to make a table, consisting of many cells. These cells would be fixed, and *very different* in sizes.

It's easy to make a no-space table when all the images are exactly the same size, but when you have images with a variety of sizes, the table doesn't fit perfectly.

Basically I want to create a collage of images with overlay text on each image. My idea was that I could create a table, and each cell (td) would have a background which is the image. Then I could just type in that cell, so the text would be over the image.
Then I'd do this for every one of my images, and a collage would be formed.

The problem is, the table makes large white spaces wherever the image sizes don't match!

How do I get rid of these spaces, or is there an entirely different code/approach I should be using?

Thanks!

Here is my current code:

HTML Code:

<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
table.nospace {
        padding: 0; margin: 0;
        border-collapse: collapse;
}
table.nospace tr {
        padding: 0; margin: 0;
}
table.nospace td {
        padding: 0; margin: 0;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<TABLE class="nospace" width="2040px" height="2000px" cellspacing="0px" cellpadding="0px">
<TR>

<td valign="top">
<table><tr>
<TD WIDTH="800px" HEIGHT="800px" BACKGROUND="image.jpg" VALIGN="bottom">
<h1><FONT COLOR=#ffffff>text</FONT></h1>
</TD></tr></table>
</td>

<td valign="top">
<table><tr>
<TD WIDTH="700" HEIGHT="497" BACKGROUND="image" VALIGN="bottom">
<h1><FONT COLOR=#ffffff>Text</FONT></h1>
</TD></tr></table>
</td>

<td valign="top">
<table><tr>
<TD WIDTH="700" HEIGHT="467" BACKGROUND="image.jpg" VALIGN="bottom">
<h1><FONT COLOR=#ffffff>Text</FONT></h1>
</TD></tr></table>
</td>

</TR>
</TABLE>

</body>
</html>

I will be brief in hoping that the issue does not require a thesis to properly fix. I'm dealing with tables within tables..within tables. In one instance, I have a 2x1 (row by column) table inside another table. So, we'll call the inside table "B" and the outside table "A". Table B is centered inside a column in Table A. I'm trying to maximize the space, but nearly nothing works. Setting Table B height=100% does nothing. The only thing that works is setting the height=N px, where N is a number. This is no good, as I want to the site to work on all resolutions. I want it to be proportional. How can I fix this?

Here's what I'm dealing with, visually:



Any help would be welcome. Thanks.

Hello,
I am newbie, just has started my adventure with html.

I tried to make an easy static site, without any additional thingd, but it occured a problem.
1. I mean, as I put table in table
because I did know how to to id in different way, to make buttons on the left stay up while text on the right is moving- if I do normal table with 2columns and on the left lets say 5rows for buttons, on the right I unite all rows to make one big sort of box for contents, as I go down and try to write something morre, the rows from the letf were enlarging too
If the size of explorer or firefox is nor full screen, the text in contents is going away (like now in lycos server, where screen is not full, but "cut" by advertise)

2. I have highlighted buttons, but not always works, why? (i mean it works, but darker buttons are charging so slow- maybe it is so because i saved them in pgn instead in gif, and each one is about 50kb?)
-probably it is not this- because I have just changed into gif, and it is still the same

3. Another problem, as I post the site, I have notice, that in firefox I can not navigate with buttons, while in explorer yes, is it a fault of my coding, or of server where I put website?

Here I post my website:
http://members.lycos.co.uk/aniaacolgate/

Could someone take a look on the code, and will be so kind to correct me?
It is a basic easy site of very begginger

I just wanted to make a shape like this:
- top: a banner
- buttons in horizontal and vertical way
- under buttons: contents (sincerly would like to put frames, but do not know how to put them there, is on the left there r buttons

Thank you so much in advance for reply
Sorry for mistakes in language

the bold stuff is what i added in to try and make it sortable and it didn't work.

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><title />

	<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="example.css"/>
	<meta name="author" content="my name" />
	<link href="http://www.joostdevalk.nl/" rev="made" />
	<script type="text/javascript" src="sortable.js"></script><meta name="generator" content="StarOffice/OpenOffice.org XSLT (http://xml.openoffice.org/sx2ml)" /><meta name="author" content="my name" /><meta name="created" content="2007-04-03T18:49:47" /><meta name="changedby" content="Ryan Gleason" /><meta name="changed" content="2007-05-04T16:38:49" /><base href="." /><style type="text/css">
	@page {  }
	table { border-collapse:collapse; border-spacing:0; empty-cells:show }
	td, th { vertical-align:top; }
	h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 { clear:both }
	ol, ul { padding:0; }
	* { margin:0; }
	*.ta1 { }
	*.ce1 { font-family:Arial; border-bottom-width:0.0351cm; border-bottom-style:solid; border-bottom-color:#000000; border-left-style:none; border-right-width:0.0133cm; border-right-style:solid; border-right-color:#000000; border-top-style:none; font-weight:bold; }
	*.ce2 { font-family:Arial; border-bottom-width:0.0351cm; border-bottom-style:solid; border-bottom-color:#000000; border-left-width:0.0133cm; border-left-style:solid; border-left-color:#000000; border-right-width:0.0133cm; border-right-style:solid; border-right-color:#000000; border-top-style:none; font-weight:bold; }
	*.Default { font-family:Arial; }
	*.Heading { font-family:Arial; text-align:center ! important; font-size:16pt; font-style:italic; font-weight:bold; }
	*.Heading1 { font-family:Arial; text-align:center ! important; font-size:16pt; font-style:italic; font-weight:bold; }
	*.Result { font-family:Arial; font-style:italic; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:underline; }
	*.Result2 { font-family:Arial; font-style:italic; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:underline; }
	*.co1 { width:1.3516in; }
	*.co10 { width:0.7854in; }
	*.co11 { width:0.5681in; }
	*.co12 { width:0.8925in; }
	*.co2 { width:0.9925in; }
	*.co3 { width:0.6984in; }
	*.co4 { width:0.622in; }
	*.co5 { width:0.372in; }
	*.co6 { width:0.3827in; }
	*.co7 { width:0.9055in; }
	*.co8 { width:0.6661in; }
	*.co9 { width:0.6772in; }
	*.ro1 { height:0.1783in; }
	</style></head>
<body dir="ltr">
<table class="sortable" id="anyid" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="ta1">
<colgroup><col width="150" /><col width="110" /><col width="78" /><col width="69" /><col width="41" />
<col width="42" /><col width="101" /><col width="110" /><col width="74" /><col width="78" /><col width="75" /><col width="75" /><col width="75" /><col width="87" /><col width="63" /></colgroup>

that should be what you need..i exported an excel file as an xhtml file and read the source code and that's how it was, real unorganized and such. basically it's got stats of baseball players and i want to make them easily sortable. i created a sortable table using another piece of code but have to manually enter everything in if i do it that way.

It's hard to explain, but basically I want to achieve creating a smaller file looking portion of my site, with a larger around and tabs. Basically this:



I currenty just have the outer red table, using .gif's to round the corners. I tried copying the code again to place in the middle of the red table code and it doesn't work. Any help to achieve this effect would be great. Here is the code I am using:

PHP Code:
<table width="450" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"
style="background-color: #086591">
<tr>
<td width="14"><img src="images/top_left.jpg" width="14" 
height="14" border="0" alt="..." /></td>
<td width="172"></td>
<td width="14"><img src="images/top_right.jpg" width="14"
height="14" border="0" alt="..." /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
CONTENT HERE
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><img src="images/bottom_left.jpg" width="14" height="14"
border="0" alt="..." /></td>
<td></td>
<td><img src="images/bottom_right.jpg" width="14" height="14"
border="0" alt="..." /></td>
</tr>
</table> 


Thanks for any help.

Hi, i'm completely new with HTML. I'm making a website for a student activity group i'm in. We chose for me, because i had a little javascript experience. Thats more than most of us.

Here goes the story. We are organizing a trip for other students. The students can enroll for the trip on the website. The form uses the following code;

Code:

<?php
$myFile = "enrollments.php";
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'a+') or die("can't open file");
$stringData ="<tr><td>".$_POST["name"]."</td><td>".$_POST["tel"]."</td><td>".$_POST["mail"]."</td><td>".$_POST["rnumber"]."</td><td>".$_POST["shirt"]."</td><td>".$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']."</td><td>".date("d-m, G:i:s")."</td></tr>\n";
fwrite($fh, $stringData);
fclose($fh);
?>

Named post.php
The code results in a simple file with only <tr>info</tr><tr>info2</tr>. Another page uses the following code to show the enrollments


Code:

<table id='enrollments'><tr><th>Name</th><th>Tel</th><th>Mail</th><th>Reknumber</th><th>Shirt</th><th></th><th>IP</th><th>Time</th></tr>
<?php include('enrollments.php'); ?>
</table>

named showenroll.html


Right. So far so good. Now we'd like to show the students which are thinking about enrolling howmany other students already have enrolled. In other words, i'd like to count the number of rows in the "showenroll.html" and display that in the index.html.

Ive found trough google the var (document.getElementById('ID')). However, i'm not able to add this var to the index.html, and direct it to a element ID on another page. As most newbs would do, i've tried document.getElementById('./showenroll/enrollments')
I'm wondering if anyone could tell me how i can direct the document.getElementById to an element id that is not on the same page. And, if this is impossible, how i can make a counter of the enrollments



Drayn
p.s. ive tried to search this forum on table row counter, but it didn't provide the right solution(s?) for me.

I have a table and after I select the question (the ball) I would like the answer to come up in another column in that table. Is that too much?

Keep'er simple please.

Thanks.

Hi All,

I would like to put the following tables within another table... any ideas?


PHP Code:
<?php session_start(); if(!isset($_SESSION['user'])) header( "Location: ../index.php" ); ?>
<html>

<head>

<style type="text/css">
body { background: url(paper.jpg) fixed center no-repeat;}
</style> 
</head>

<body bgcolor="333333">

  <body>

<div align="center">
  <center>
  <table border="2" bordercolor="" cellpadding="3" width="713" height="1">
      <tr>
     <td width="250" height="200" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" valign="middle" align="center" bordercolor="#000000" bordercolorlight="#000000" bordercolordark="#000000"><a href="list_quotes.php?building=1275_Elgin_Street"><img src="1275Elgin.jpg"></a> </td>
     <td width="4" height="200" valign="middle" align="center"></td>
     <td width="250" height="200" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" valign="middle" align="center" bordercolor="#000000" bordercolorlight="#000000" bordercolordark="#000000"><a href="list_quotes.php?building=1230_White_Oaks_Blvd"><img src="1230white.jpg"></a></td>
     <td width="4" height="200" valign="middle" align="center"></td>
     <td width="250" height="200" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" valign="middle" align="center" bordercolor="#000000" bordercolorlight="#000000" bordercolordark="#000000"><a href="list_quotes.php?building=620_Lolita_Gardens"><img src="620Lolita.jpg"></a></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td width="250" height="25" bgcolor="#ECE9D8" valign="middle" align="center" bordercolor="#000000" bordercolorlight="#000000" bordercolordark="#000000"><b><a href="list_quotes.php?building=1275_Elgin_Street">1275_Elgin_Street</a></b></td>
      <td width="4" height="25" valign="middle" align="center"></td>
      <td width="250" height="25" bgcolor="#ECE9D8" valign="middle" align="center" bordercolor="#000000" bordercolorlight="#000000" bordercolordark="#000000"><b><a href="list_quotes.php?building=1230_White_Oaks_Blvd">1230_White_Oaks_Blvd</a></b></td>
      <td width="4" height="25" valign="middle" align="center"></td>
      <td width="250" height="25" bgcolor="#ECE9D8" valign="middle" align="center" bordercolor="#000000" bordercolorlight="#000000" bordercolordark="#000000"><b><a href="list_quotes.php?building=620_Lolita_Gardens">620_Lolita_Gardens</a></b></td>
    </tr>
  </table>
  </center>
</div>
<div align="center">
  <center>
  <table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" width="712">
    <tr>
      <td width="704">
        <p align="center"><b></font></b></td>
    </tr>
  </table>
  </center>
</div>
<p align="center"><font face="Algerian" size="5">                  
</font></p>

</body>

</html>

I have a website I am working on he http://www.cliffmccormick.com/New/home.html and I need the site to fill 100% of the browser window. The problem is that the table has 4 rows, as you can see by the 4 different colored sections (ignoring the white at the bottom). I have found code to make the table height 100%, but the problem is when it does this, it ignores the pixel heights I have specified.

I need the middle area with the picture of the face to expand freely, but I need the other 3 rows to remain the pixel heights I specify. So, the area with the face I do not specify a height. and I thought that would mean that it would be the only row to expand, but this is not the case. I have tried lots of things, and am out of ideas.

Can anyone help me?

Two questions about embedding a table within a table:

1, For some reason when I put a new table in the cell of an existing table, the table will always appear as verically justified in the center rather than the top. How do i change this so that the table appears in the top of the cell?

2, I am using dreamweaver, I have 2 tables embedded in different cells of an existing table, the code works fine when I play the page in a web browser, but I cannot see the tables in design view of dreamweaver, this has never happened to me before. Any idea why this is happening and how to fix it?

Is it possible?