HTML - Trouble With Proper Alignment Of Links
Hi, my name is Josh, and I'm fairly new to website design, so therefore, also a little new to HTML. I apologize in advance for the length of my post, but I feel I really need to be specific as much as possible. Let me be honest with you. I have very limited knowledge on the subject, but I am a quick learner. Anyway, I'm creating a directory on my website where the visitor would be able to clink on one of 51 links, aligned in 3 columns, to take them to a page listing businesses within one of the 50 states. The 51st link, of course, would be directing visitors to an international listing page. Then below the links for the different states, there is supposed to be 26 links, one for each letter of the alphabet, so the visitor can find a business by name. Following that, of course, would begin the listing of the businesses. Basically, I've been teaching myself HTML so far by viewing the source code of pages I visit, and I discover a basic idea of how to do different things with web design. Let me show you the format I've been trying to grasp with this project by giving you an example code. The following code places the links for the states all at the bottom, and also they are not aligned properly, as the first column appears higher than the second which is also higher than the third. I'm not sure I quite understand the way this code works, or what mistake I'm making with it. What I would actually rather do is have a code creating a drop-down box which the visitor would just select their option, and be directed to the requested page immediately, but I don't know how to do that either. At any rate, I do also need to figure out how to get those state-by-state links to appear at the top of the business listings instead of at the very bottom of the page the way it is appearing now with this code. If anybody could help me figure out what the heck I'm doing, I would really appreciate it.
HTML Code: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <!-- saved from url=(0063)[url]http://www.geocities.com/josh**************/connections.html[/url] --> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Connections</TITLE> <body background="http://www.geocities.com/clipart/pbi/backgrounds/Template_Pages/aboutme_techie_bg2.gif" bgcolor="#000000" link="#ff0000" vlink="#ff00ff" text="#00ff00" > <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=650> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <H1><A name=top>Connections</H1></FONT></A> <P><IMG height=4 src="" width=500></P><FONT color=#0000ff> <H2>Welcome to...</H2></FONT> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td colspan=1 height=750></td> <td align="left" colspan=3 rowspan=1 width=639><p><b><i><u><font color="#7F7F7F" face="Arial Black" size="+1"><A href="http://www.geocities.com/josh**************/alabama.html">Alabama</A><br><A href="http://www.geocities.com/josh**************/arizona.html">Arizona</A><br>...</font></b></i></u></td> <td colspan=2 height=750></td> </tr> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td colspan=1 height=750></td> <td align="center" colspan=3 rowspan=1 width=639><p><b><i><u><font color="#7F7F7F" face="Arial Black" size="+1"><A href="http://www.geocities.com/josh**************/kentucky.html">Kentucky</A><br><A href="http://www.geocities.com/josh**************/louisiana.html">Louisiana</A><br>...</font></b></i></u></td> <td colspan=2 height=750></td> </tr> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td colspan=1 height=750></td> <td align="right" colspan=3 rowspan=1 width=639><p><b><i><u><font color="#7F7F7F" face="Arial Black" size="+1"><A href="http://www.geocities.com/josh**************/northcarolina.html">North Carolina</A><br><A href="http://www.geocities.com/josh**************/ohio.html">Ohio</A>...</font></b></i></u></td> <td colspan=2 height=750></td> </tr> <P><A href="http://www.geocities.com/josh**************/connections.html#A">A</A> <A href="http://www.geocities.com/josh**************/connections.html#B">B</A>...</P> <P><A href="http://www.geocities.com/josh**************/connections.html#N">N</A> <A href="http://www.geocities.com/josh**************/connections.html#O">O</A>...</P> <P><A href="http://www.geocities.com/josh**************/home.html">Return To Home Page</A></P> <FONT color=#00ff00> <H3>13AD LUC ENT</H3> <ADDRESS>12341 Nellis Street, Springfield Gardens, NY 11413-1440</ADDRESS> <ADDRESS>718.807.8811</ADDRESS>... <H3>Zoom Records</H3> <ADDRESS>19 Embarcadero Cove, Oakland, CA 94606</ADDRESS> <ADDRESS>510.535.9666</ADDRESS> <P><A href="http://www.geocities.com/josh**************/connections.html#top">Return to Top</A></P> <P><A href="http://www.geocities.com/josh**************/home.html">Return to Home Page</A></P> </BODY></HTML> As you can see, my knowledge of HTML is pretty basic, and I'm sure you can tell that I tried to abbreviate this excerpt code as much as possible to conserve space on this post. I placed three dots "..." in many places to signify where large irrelevant portions of the page have been omitted, especially where I eliminated the thousands of business listing codes...lol. It may also have not been necessary to provide as much of the code as I did, but I just wanted to make sure that what I need is understood so perhaps I can get some help. Thank you everyone in advance for your assistance... Similar TutorialsI am having HTML page which also includes css. It works properly in firefox, but in IE the whole document is not get well aligned What changes should i have to make to view it in any browser. Thanks Hi everyone. I am having a problem with a page. It is displaying fine in FF but not in IE. You can view this page at: http://www.jalc.org/about/2008_galle...008/index.html As you can see, when you look at this in IE it takes the image in the left column and puts it at the top and the image that is supposed to be in the right column moves over to the left. 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