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HTML - Table And Forms And Fieldsets - Width Problem
Until I die, I will never quite understand tables - if someome could shed some light on this it would allow me to keep what little hair I have left.
I have a Table with some form inputs in it as outlined below, the problem is this, there is what looks like a 15px space on the right side and I don't know why its there. Two questions: Size="18" - 18 what? I read that these are the size of a space, but if it is, what is the size of a space? Second, width="50" - 50 what? I am assuming pixels, but with all the problems I seem to have with tables, I'm not sure. <fieldset style="width: 260px"><LEGEND class="legend"> <table width="260"> <tr> <td width="240"><input type="text" size="18" etc.> <td width="20 align="right">There is a 10 x 10 graphic here</td> </tr> </table> </fieldset> Hope I made sense, any help or guidlines that could ease my life with tables would be appreciated. Thx Similar TutorialsHere is my current code: <TABLE width="215" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td><TABLE width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td> VARIABLE TEXT </td> <td align="left"> IMAGE </td> </tr> </TABLE></td> </tr> <tr> <td> random text that is lengthy </td> </tr> </TABLE> My problem is that I want the image to be displayed right next to the variable text . but since the variable can be any length, it is not getting displayed right next to the image. It is turning out to have a large gap in between the variable and the image. The variable can be any length... it could be "hi" or "hellooooooooo" but the image still needs to be displayed exactly to the right of it. How can I fix this? ok, im trying to make a shoutbox and i need the box to be a max width of 200px. But, since the shoutbox entries are going to be dynamic, theres a problem. In a table cell, if you have a string of characters without spaces, it will extend the width of the table cell (and entire table if appropriate) in order to accomodate this... The problem is, i need the table width to stay constant... 200px. Ive tried using normal width attributes and css in each of the td, table, and div (around the table) tags, but that does not work-- the table still extends horizontally in order to display the string. Is there anyway I can staticly set the table width to 200px and keep it that way? Frankly, i dont care what happens to the extra long string, short of deleting it altogether, i just need the table to stay a constant width Hello Everyone! (hoping for quick reply.. lol) I am not sure if this should go here, or in the design section. I chose here, because it is a problem in the code itself. I have introduced myself in the introductory section, if you want to know a little bit more about what I am doing this for. I made a template design in The Gimp photo editor. I sliced it up, and opened up the HTML file in the editor Kompozer. It opened up just like it should, but I wanted a liquid type layout, so I turned the cell's widths into the corresponding percentages, though Kompozer rounded them off. (Shown below) However, when I previewed the file this time, it appeared as if it skipped every other cell, leaving a blank white space in its spot. Not even in the right percentages. I think I know what I've done wrong, looking back now that I am writing this thread. Can someone please point me in the right direction? EDIT: Code posted as comment, due to lack of character room. Hey, I'm trying to set something so simple as the TD width for 1 specific column, but it will NOT listen to me! http://www.unreal-deals.com/ebook/ad...i-showdata.php I've set the td width on the second column Item_Name to be 5000px, just to see if it would work. It does nothing. No matter if I set the table width to 100% or 300%, setting the TD width does not affect that TD... What am I missing here? Thanks I have a very simple table that I cannot simply get to render correctly across IE, Firefox, and Opera. At first, I was using CSS to define the cell widths/heights - when that was giving me issues I got rid of all the CSS and attempted to use plain HTML. The problem persisted. Here's the code - it doesn't get much simpler than this: Code: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE> New Document </TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="1"> <tr> <td width="15" height="33">a</td> <td>b</td> <td>c</td> <td width="15" height="33">d</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="4" rowspan="1">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.</td> </tr> </table> </BODY> </HTML> Appearance in Opera Appearance in IE7 Appearance in Firefox (this is what I want it to look like in all browsers) I haven't done HTML seriously in 7-8 years or so but I don't really remember having these problems with IE/Netscape. The fix I found for IE was to use style="table-layout: fixed" for the table: Code: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE> New Document </TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="1" style="table-layout: fixed"> <tr> <td width="15" height="33">a</td> <td>b</td> <td>c</td> <td width="15" height="33">d</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="4" rowspan="1">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.</td> </tr> </table> </BODY> </HTML> Now IE works fine, Firefox didn't break, but Opera's cells still are not 15 pixels. IE7 Appearance fixed Here's my attempt at getting Opera to display it properly by mixing CSS and HTML: Code: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE> New Document </TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="1" style="table-layout: fixed"> <tr> <td style="width: 15px; height: 33px" width="15" height="33">a</td> <td style="height: 33px">b</td> <td style="height: 33px">c</td> <td style="width: 15px; height: 33px" width="15" height="33">d</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 100%" width="100%" colspan="4" rowspan="1">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.</td> </tr> </table> </BODY> </HTML> Opera looks even worse now This seems like such a simple table. I really don't understand why I'm having such a hard time. I believe the second row - using colspan is causing the issue. Please don't answer with - "dont use tables" or something silly like that Thank you -TableTrTd Hi Everyone, I am trying to create a generic Form model for taking user input and storing an XML file in a database. I can only use JSP, Java, and HTML functionality which is already installed on the server, so new mods or plug ins are out. To do this, I need to group fields with a common parent together, and fieldsets are a natural way to do this. Is it possible to discover, using JSP or another method, which fieldset encompassed a given form field? Take the following example: XML Structu Code: <server name="myserver01">
<elements>
<serverAttr attr1="myAttrbiute">
<serverAttr attr2="myAttr2">
</elements>
</server>
<server name="myserver02">
<elements>
<servertAttr attr1="another attribute">
</elements>
</server>
...
To gather the data, I have an HTML form where users may add any number of server attributes (including 0) to a given server which they also define. example/pseudo-code shown he HTML Code: <fieldset>
<Legend accesskey="Server1">Define a Server</Legend>
Server Logical name : <input type="text" size="30" name="serverName">
Attribute: <input type="text" size="30" name="attribute">
<!--Java Script Button to add an additional form field dynamically, with identical
form name.-->
</fieldset>
<!--javascript button to add additional fieldset, with identical structure as above.-->
Users can add or remove any number of servers or attributes using the javascript buttons, but the form field names will be the same. When the user presses submit, I will get some number of post variables identified by "attribute", but how can I map them back to a specific server definition? Is this possible? Thanks so much! Hi all, I want my table to have 100% of the screen width. But when the text inside is to big, the table is wider than the screen. My table info is: <table border='1' bordercolor='darkgrey' width='100%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='0'> I also want, that all 8 columns have the same width according to 100% from the table. What can I do? Mfg, DerTobi Hi, ive been trying to solve the image in the table but couldnt get it right.. I need help from you guys.. kindly see the attached image for the error: and this is the HTML code HTML Code: <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="600px" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<tr>
<td width="34">
<img src="{/document/config/static-image-url}3_1_3.gif" alt="" border="0" width="34" height="116" />
</td>
<td>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="268" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" height="116">
<tr>
<td align="left" width="268" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<span class="price1" style="color:#000000;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">
<xsl:call-template name="fixLines">
<xsl:with-param name="inText" select="/document/page/field-set/field[tagname = 'text_15']/value" />
</xsl:call-template>
</span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" width="268" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<span class="price1" style="color:#000000;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial">
<xsl:call-template name="fixLines">
<xsl:with-param name="inText" select="/document/page/field-set/field[tagname = 'text_16']/value" />
</xsl:call-template>
</span>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
<!-- the error image which needs to be aligned-->
<td>
<img src="{/document/config/static-image-url}3_1_5.gif" alt="" border="0" width="61" height="116" />
</td>
<!--END OF the error image which needs to be aligned-->
<td align="left" width="290" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" valign="top">
<span class="price1" style="color:#000000;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">
<xsl:call-template name="fixLines">
<xsl:with-param name="inText" select="/document/page/field-set/field[tagname = 'text_17']/value" />
</xsl:call-template>
</span>
</td>
<td>
<img src="{/document/config/static-image-url}3_0.gif" alt="" border="0" width="100" height="116" />
</td>
<td>
<img src="{/document/config/static-image-url}3_1_4.gif" alt="" border="0" width="32" height="116" />
</td>
</tr>
</table>
Hope to get a response asap.. thank you guys, Regards, Ed Please check my new website at http://www.lombrozo.co.uk the main part of each page is a table with width set to 100%, but as you can see, it doesn't quite fill the width of the browser, you can see this by the thick grey line on the right side... Any ideas? any help much appreciated. Thanks, Simon. Hi, I'm having an issue with a table that I could use some help with. Code: <table width="10"> <tr> <td width="10">ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890!@#$%^&*()_+/*-+</td> </tr> </table> As you can see, the letters contained in the <td> when printed are much wider than 10px, but because there are no spaces between the text, it stretches past 10px. I'm trying to find a way so that even though there are no spaces dividing the text, the text still stays within 10px width and doesn't stretch the table. I've tried fixed width and max-width, neither worked. Any suggestions? Hello all! I wanted to ask if there is a way to specify certain width sizes for table cells in a table. The thing is that I have a table in one webpage that, if I leave the width of the TD cells unspecified, I usually end up with some cells being very wide because the text that is written inside them is very big and does not roll up automatically and other cells shrink and become very small in order for the total table not to lose its specified length. Can I set a specific width for the cell that gets filled with many words so that the contents of this cell will wrap and not extend so much? Thank you! I'm trying to have a preformatted section of text adhere to specific width attributes. My research has already led me to realizing that the "width" attribute in the <pre> tag has since been outdated and browsers will not recognize it anymore. So my next step is to put it within a table...but I can't get the <pre> block of text to adhere to the table dimensions either. Am I missing something simple? There has to be a way to keep the spaces and line breaks in a block of text but keep it confined to a certain area. Here is the relevant section of my code Code: <TABLE WIDTH=200>
<TR>
<TD ALIGN=CENTER>
<H3><B><FONT color=#cc0000 face=arial>
TECH NOTES:</FONT></B></H3></TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD>
<PRE><%=sBloody long winded text block%></PRE></TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
I guess I should also note that this table is inside of numerous other tables...some of which have width attributes and some of which don't. I didn't think that would affect the outcome but I may be wrong This may seem like a silly design question, I just CANNOT figure this out. this site, www.chrisdelia.com is made up of tables that are 100% table width. I want to replace the green area with an image that is 300x300 px and have the gray area go 100% across, but i just cannot seem to figure it out. inside the gray area also is an iFrame on each page, where the content goes, always. am i an idiot for overlooking the easiest thing ever? Hi all, I am a totally new to html, "yesterday I could not even spell it". I am working on a simple project where I have used a table to store page information (text and pictures), I read it somewhere it is the best way to do it. I figured out how to set the context width in the cell (<td width="20">) but how do set the width of the cell? Remember, I am not building "The Windsor Castle" just a little cuby house in the back so everything should be as simple aspossble, not necessarily the fastets and most versatile. Thanks in advance. Hello, I am having trouble converting the following example table into a nice tableless layout: Code: <table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td><img src="./left_image.gif" border="0" /></td> <td style="background: url(./bg_image.gif) top left repeat-x;" width="100%">Content</td> <td><img src="./right_image.gif" border="0" /></td> </tr> </table> The main problem is that center 100% width cell. A 100% width div with a div either side doesn't work... Any ideas on how I would go about this? Im trying to creat a border above and beyond a word using inline css but want it go along the length of the whole width of the table. the table width is 500px. example I want this heading to have a bottom border go right across the width not just under it. <p><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:verdana;line-height:150%;border-bottom: 1px solid #EAEADA; font-weight:bold;color:#24561e;">HEADING1</span></p> I dont want to add a style sheet. The above code Shows up as HEADING My previous post meantioned that I have made an advert using HTML in a page using a table and I'm using an IFrame to embed this into my main pages where needed. I've hit a real problem this time. The table I've made seems to set its own minimum width for cells. As a result this causes the end cell to slightly spill off the edge of my pages. I have manually changed everything I can possibly think of, and nothing seems to work. In what instance would a table do this? The table is in a form. Inside the table in each cell I have 1 line of text, followed by a input box directly underneath, followed by another input box directly underneith, followed by a text hyperlink directly underneath that. I have the html in the text file attached if you want to have a little nosy (the javascript file referenced is to periodically change the text of the second box in each cell). Any ideas would be much appreciated. I've spent far too much time on this advert than I would have liked... Regards HI, Code: <html>
<body>
<table>
<tr><td id="td">
<label id="la">HI</label>
</td></tr>
</table>
<script>
document.onload=f();
function f(){
alert(document.getElementById("td").width);
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
in the above code i am not setting any style to TD element or LABEL element , but after the document loaded i need to get the width of either TD or LABEL element. is there any possibility to achieve that? help is highly anticipated Thanks R The following piece of code delivers a table with fixed width 666px and appr. 200px 466px wide columns, when opened within IE. Long text fits into the columns, long strings break at the border. When opening up within MS Word, the column width seem to ignore the styles. Does anybody know alternative commands delivering the same result in MS Word? Thanks, Andreas <table style="width: 666px; table-layout:fixed; word-wrap: break-word;" cellspacing="0"> <col width="30%"> <col width="70%"> <tr> <td>Floating Rate Payer Calculation Amount:</td> <td>|TRADE_CURRENCY| |CD_NOTIONAL|</td> </tr> </table> http://pizzarific.net84.net/ - please visit my website that i am developing for our php website. i have not yet embedded any php scripts there. please try to view the "pizza and food" both in firefox and IE7. how can resolve IE weird table width. Please help me. if you want i can give you my website files. thank you very much |
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