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Posted by Ed Mulroy on 06/14/06 12:06
I've replaced the left table with a <ul> and altered the right table to
<table style="float: left">. It worked just as you said:
http://home.nc.rr.com/emulroy/theshoreS.htm
Thank you. I appreciate the help.
.. Ed
> dorayme wrote in message
> news:doraymeRidThis-7D3B41.11105314062006@news-vip.optusnet.com.au...
>
> You are being far too complicated.
>
> Get rid of
>
> <table align="left" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="2" width="22%">
>
> and try
>
> <table style="float:left">
>
> for your left nav (then go on, if you have time, to be rid of the
> table altogether and make it a list as has been rightly said. In
> which case you could float the list left with something like <ul
> style="float:left"> etc
>
> Then be rid of
>
> <table align="right" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"
> width="70%">
>
> and put
>
> <table>
>
> and it will immediately look better. Stop trying to constrain the
> cell widths. the magic of tables is that they expand to hold the
> contents.
>
> But the tables for the right content are just too bad for words
> and I will stop now.
>
> If you don't want to get into floats and stuff, make the whole
> thing one big table, the nav in the left col, the content in the
> right col. And if you can't be rid of tables for the right col,
> at least make a simple one with as few instructions to it as
> possible. It will be the better for it.
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