Posted by Alan Searle on 10/19/07 08:11

Bergamot wrote:
> Post a URL. If you won't make the effort to make a publicly accessible
> web page, why should we make any effort to help you? There are lots of
> free places to post test pages so there is no excuse for not having one.

Yes, you're right: It is easy to get free web space. And here is my
example table ...

http://alse.load4.net/tabletest/table_test02.html

I have set the table width to 300 and each column to 100 but, as you
will see, because the text in Col02 is too long, it fails to wrap and
the column is much wider than I want. If I break up the text, then the
column behaves correctly.

> And put the problem in context, not some bogus Lorem ipsum stuff. If we
> see the whole picture, we may offer different ways to acheive your goal
> that you might not have considered. IOW, you may be trying to fix the
> wrong problem by deciding on a solution (exact column widths) before
> fully understanding the issues.

Ah, yes, let me expand: I am presenting some big tables of data and so,
in the header I present the titles followed by a division break and then
the table below becomes scrollable (with the header/titles always
displayed). This is great but of course you have to make sure that the
column widths of the table are exactly the same width as the titles that
you have declared in the header. Otherwise you have skewed columns
under the headers which makes it difficult to read.

On most of the reports this works great but, wherever there is a long
item of text in a particular column, then the whole thing gets distorted.

Any tips would be most welcome.

Regards and thanks,
Alan Searle.

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