Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 10/06/65 11:42

dorayme wrote:

> In article
> <1142460266.030081.281450@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com>,
> "Brian" <barmand@amphenolpcd.com> wrote:
>
>
>>Is there a way to make a small change to the existing html to get the
>>tables to be the same size? Right now that's all I want to do. And I
>>need them to stay the same size relative to each other.
>
>
> This is most unclear. You have all sorts of boxes. What do you
> want lined up with what? Explain clearly. Sizes of boxes have
> more than one dimension, which boxes? Which dimensions? What
> where? Speak!
>
> If you want a box on the left to be the same height as a box to
> your right, then this is exactly what a table with cells in the
> same row does best. Your job is to make sure they are in the same
> table and same row and nothing fancy is added to disturb this
> like colspans as you go down.
>
> But really, you either need to learn about tables or give it to
> someone who can redo the code (even in tables, yes) to get the
> look you want.
>
> Frankly, want some good advice? Leave it as it is, it is a smelly
> dog on the inside, it is invalid markup and worse, don't disturb
> it. It does not smell too bad on the outside. It is functional
> enough. Wait till you have more time.
>
Agree! Because the markup (HTML) is chock full of old deprecated
attributes (the WIDTH, HEIGHT,...) and element (FONT, CENTER, ...) to
make small changes universally will take a lot of work. For the effort
that much effort it would be easier, quicker, and most likely less
expensive to redo correctly with the markup (HTML) and presentation
(CSS) separate than to hack with what you have. Once redone if you ever
wanted to change your site again in the manner your are attempting right
now the change could be as easily as changing a few lines in s CSS
stylesheet and the *whole* site would change *without* having to redo
all the pages are you are now faced with. That is the beauty of
seperating the markup and presentation, maintainability!

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Take care,

Jonathan
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