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Posted by Cerebral Believer on 10/07/00 11:55
Please ignore the representation of the table, the formatting was lost (by
getting much bigger) after I posted the message to the group!
Regards,
CB.
"Cerebral Believer" <cerebral.believer@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:5qGDg.154636$sz1.69276@newsfe6-gui.ntli.net...
> Hi,
>
> I have chosen to make a basic template for a website I am creating, using
> a seriries of tables to control the layout of the page. I have an overall
> "global" 4rows x 5columns table, arranged basically into 3 columns for
> content, with two columns used as "spacers" between the text in the main
> panel and the left panel and right panel elements either side of it on on
> the page, as shown approximately below:
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> | |
> | PAGE BANNER I
> | |
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> |_________| | | |_________|
> | | | | | |
> | |S| |S| |
> | | | | | |
> | |P| |P| |
> | | | | | |
> | LEFT |A| |A| RIGHT |
> | | | MAIN PANEL | |
> |
> | PANEL |C| |C| PANEL |
> | | | | | |
> | |E|_________________________________________|E| |
> | | | | | |
> | |R| *MAIN PANEL FOOTER*
> |R| |
> | | | | | |
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> | |
> | FOOTER I
> | |
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I have also chosen to use another two tables actually within the some
> cells of the "global" table, one inside the left panel for navigation, and
> one inside the main panel (which includes the main panel footer) so that I
> can give the text a different colour background to the content in the left
> and right panels. The table shows fine, there do not appear to be any
> formatting problems as regards that, but can anyone tell me any reasons
> why the text I have in the following code:
>
> <tr>
> <td class="mainpanelfooter">
> <p>*MAIN PANEL FOOTER*</p>
> </td>
> </tr>
>
> Referenced in a stylesheet thus:
>
> td.mainpanelfooter {
> vertical-align: middle;
> height: 20px;
> width: auto;
> padding: 7px;
> font-size: 80%;
> color: #000000;
> font-family: Verdana, Sans-Serif;
> font-weight: normal;
> text-decoration: none;
> text-align: center;
> }
>
> Does not appear centered (but aligned left) when I preview my page in my
> browser? It does appear centered in Frontpage's design window, but not in
> the preview window.
>
> Even if I use an <p align="center"></p> tag around the text in question,
> the text appears as if it has merely been indented left rather than
> centered. Any ideas what the problem could be or how to fix it?
>
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