Posted by David Dorward on 09/04/05 00:32

michele@quality-computing.com wrote:

> Your suggestion

What suggestion?
http://www.safalra.com/special/googlegroupsreply/

> is not quite working considering I've got a table
> inside a table.

Whatever for? http://dorward.me.uk/www/nested/

> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding-left="15"

Your markup is invalid, that can't be helping. http://validator.w3.org/ is
your friend.

> font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica;

The trouble with Verdana is that it tempts authors into using font sizes
which are unreadable small when Verdana is not available (it has an off
x-height so it more readable at small font sizes) ...

> font-size: 8pt;

.... although that's unreadable for a lot of people even with Verdana
installed.

http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=UsingPoints

> What is the best way to accomplish this?

1. Don't use tables for layout
http://www.allmyfaqs.com/faq.pl?Tableless_layouts

2. Provide URLs to examples, they are much easier for people to interpret
then fragments pasted into the messages.

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David Dorward <http://blog.dorward.me.uk/> <http://dorward.me.uk/>
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