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Posted by dorayme on 06/14/06 21:12
In article <wICdnbKaepczZhLZnZ2dnUVZ_vSdnZ2d@comcast.com>,
"Ed Mulroy" <dont_email_me@bitbuc.ket> wrote:
> 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.
I wish you would not top post! It makes it hard for others... I
am glad you are starting to ul and float things. What you
described is not quite what I said but you may have made some
typos: why would you float a right table left?
Ah yes, you meant float right... No, that is not what I would
suggest or did suggest. Don't float that table at all! Float the
ul left and the table not at all (or left - but this might
confuse you). The reason I say this is not that you have done
something very very bad, but simply because it is inelegant to
leave such a gap between the nav col and the content. A gap that
is at the mercy of the browser window. On my 20" monitor at full
screen it just looks silly!
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dorayme
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