HTML - Whats Wrong With This Table ?

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

Hello, I'm a newbie to these sorts of things. I'm also not sure what the technical jargon is for this so please bare with me.

What I want to achieve is to have the sitemenu part stretch across the entire table ending with the image tags (visually I want the sitemenu part to end with rounded edges which I made as an image). Is this even possible? I am not sure how to accomplish this. At the moment whilst the end image caps the sitemenu column, it does not stretch to the end of the rest of the table and the beginning image is hanging out at the very start where I want it to sit, but sitemenu does not reach it. I thought it was a problem with my colspan but touching it just destroys the entire thing.

For further clarification here is what it looks like:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...arghtables.jpg

And here is what I WANT it to look like:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...ouldbenice.jpg

Here is the current code that I have:

Code:

<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="center" width="90%">

<tr>
      <td colspan="5" id="sitetitle"><img src="banner.jpg"></td>
</tr>

<tr>
      <td colspan="5" id="emptyrow"></td>
</tr>


<tr>
<td width="15" valign="top"><img src="left.jpg" width="15" height="53" border="0"></td>



<td colspan="3" id="sitemenu">Hello</td>



<td valign="top" width="15"><img src="right.jpg" width="15" height="53" 

border="0"></td>
</tr>


<tr>
      <td colspan="5" id="emptyrow"></td>
</tr>



<tr>



<td id="hmenu" valign="top">

<p>Stuff</p>

      </td>

<td id="emptycolumn"></td>

      <td id="content" valign="top">

<p>Stuff.</p>

      </td>


      <td id="emptycolumn"></td>


      <td id="vmenu" valign="top">

<p>Stuff.</p>

      </td>
</tr>

<tr>
      <td colspan="5" id="emptyrow"></td>
</tr>



<tr>
      <td colspan="5" id="sitecredits">Credits</td>
</tr>

</table>

Thank you for the help!

I don't know how to even debug this because it works in firefox but not IE.
I display a table and use PHP script to populate the table. In explorer, the "fellow" value gets SKIPPED and then the next value ("rcf_date") gets put into that td, so everything gets screwed up!

Looking at the code I can't figure out what it is about it that explorer doesn't like. Why on earth would it skip the fellow field? Here;s the php code that displays the table:
Here's a link to a screenshot of the table in IE:

http://bp1.blogger.com/_cy0zia_bU_s/...screenshot.png

Here is the code to display that table. Any help would be appreciated:

Code:

<?php require('secure.php'); 

include "dateheader.php"; 
include "connectdb.php"; ?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Active consult patient list</title>
<link href="stylesheets/simple.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">

</head>
<?php

$query = "SELECT id_incr, patient_name, mrn, location, fellow, rcf_date, admission, consult_reason, impression, recs, comments ".
		"FROM active_consults WHERE signoff_status = 'a' ".
		"ORDER BY patient_name";
$results = mysql_query ($query) or die (mysql_error());
$num_pts = mysql_num_rows ($results);

$consultheading =<<<EOD


<table class="tablemargin" bgcolor="#CCCCFF" width = "98%" border = "1" cellpadding = "2"
	cellspacing = "2" align = "left">
	
	<th> Name </th>
	<th> MRN </th>
	<th> Loc </th>
	<th> Fellow </th>
	<th> Date of Consult</th>
	<th> Reason for Admssion </th>
	<th> Reason for Consult  </th>
	<th> Impression </th>
	<th> Recs </th>
	<th> Comments </th>
	<th> Update patient </th>

	</tr>
EOD;
echo $consultheading;

while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc ($results)) {
	?>
<tr>
  <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" >
  <?php echo $row['patient_name'];?> </td>
    <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" >
  <?php echo $row['mrn'];?> </td>
    <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" >
  <?php echo $row['location'];?> </td>
    <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" ">
  <?php echo $row['fellow'];?> </td>
    <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" >
  <?php echo $row['rcf_date'];?> </td>
    <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" >
  <?php echo $row['admission'];?> </td>
    <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" >
  <?php echo $row['consult_reason'];?> </td>
    <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" >
  <?php echo $row['impression'];?> </td>
    <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" >
  <?php echo $row['recs'];?> </td>
    <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" >
  <?php echo $row['comments'];?> </td>
    <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" align="center">
  <a href="editpatient.php?action=edit&id=<?php
	 echo $row['id_incr']; ?>">[edit]</a> </td>
      </tr>
      <?php
     }
     ?>
     
<td bgcolor="#CCCCCC" colspan=11 align="left" class="fineprint"> Total active patients: 
<?php echo $num_pts; ?></td></tr>
<td></td>
<tr>
</tr>
<tr><td align="center"><a href="newpatient.php">[ADD PATIENT]</a></td>
<td align="center" COLSPAN=4><a href="displaysignoff.php">[DISPLAY SIGNED-OFF LIST]</a></td>
<td align="center" colspan=3><a href="export.php">[EXPORT ALL PATIENTS (EXCEL)]</a></td>

<td colspan=3 align="right"><a href="http://www.hfhpulm.com">[HFHPULM.COM]</a></td>

</tr></table>

Hi I have problem with IE7 at present with a HTML table. The problem may span beyond HTML tables but basically the colors are coming out all wrong. Firefox is fine, I'd hardcode bgcolor="red" and it comes out red. In IE7 it comes out blue however Most other colours apart from black and white are the same.

Does anyone know what is causing this?

In a html file I found, it had

‎ & # 8 2 0 6 ;

(The above but without whitespace in it.)
Does anyone know which character this is for?

i was wandering whats the best code to look into for a noob to web design. I know a little in html, but i was wandering is there a certain new language that might be really popular in the future maybe the newest language for web design? thanks....and also please include if you could a website to help you learn it

i was just told that frames are not good to use... i was wondering what a good alt to frames was

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- Ryan

I am having the hardest time I been working on trying to fit this form into a iframe and have it position relative on my website. The iframe is positioned correctly on my page but I dont know if its margins, padding, or the width and height that i got wrong but the iframe is blocking some of my html from being highlighted because the iframe is sitting ontop of some of the text around the form.

Here is my HTML code and my CSS file

HTML:
HTML Code:

 		<br />
		<br />
                <span class="contact"> 
<iframe src ="contactform.php" allowtransparency="true" position="absolute" width="550" height="600" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe></span>
		  <br />
                  <br />

CSS
Code:

}

.contact {
	position: relative;
	left: 300px;
	top: -1125px;
}

Hi there Guys Im Looking for the HTML Code for how to make a box with html links at the top with a border all the way round the box, Exactly the same as this guy has done:
http://www.gappon.com/

Could somebody please paste the code on here Thanks

Hi All,

Im just wondering what the standard Width and Height is for a website nowadays?


Thanks in Advance

If I type this URL into my browser location bar, it works just fine, and displays the image properly:

http://www.zappos.com/n/multi_view.c...223&view=multi

If I use the same URL in the following code on an html page and render it in the browser, no image displays:

<img src="http://www.zappos.com/n/multi_view.cgi?product_id=7558977&color_id=205223&view=multi">

What am I doing wrong? I've tried encoding it, but that didn't fix the problem.

Can someone please help? I'm sure I'm missing something completely obvious.

Thanks,
Janet

O.K, I'm building my new website and using smart FTP client to upload my files.

Please take a look at the website I'm building, how come it is like this?

www.hautecoutureforkids.com

When I click the .html buttons it works, but I don't want it like that. I want when I type in my website's name, the page appears automatically. I hope my explaination is not confusing.

Please help

Thank you in advance

Ning