Posted by Ben C on 05/23/07 16:56

On 2007-05-23, stewart.fay@anite.com <stewart.fay@anite.com> wrote:
> Dear All.
>
> I have a simple table with 8 Columns.
>
> For the first row I colspan all 10 Columns
> For Subsequent rows I set a width of 25.
>
> The Problem I have is that if there is a long word, say 'Mediteranean'
> in the top row, then it stretches the 8th column wider than the the
> others, EVEN though there is extra space with in the all the Merged
> cells.
>
> It would appear as though there is extra padding even though I have
> set the padding to zero.
>
> Please let me know if you would like to see some code.

Yes let's see the code. Post a URL to it ideally.

How to distribute content minwidths and maxwidths across spanned columns
is one of the trickier complexities of HTML table formatting.

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