text reformatting itself on a web page am building

mollymoo | 13:35 Mon 03rd Oct 2005 | Technology

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Hi i am buildign a website and have put in some text into a cell but for soem reason it seems to act as if there is an invisable cell on the end, so i end up with a large gap. I cannto see anythign in the formatting of the codign for fonts. any ideas. i can publish it if i helps to see it visually. thanks

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OBonio

Publish it and it should be more apparent what the problem is :o)

mollymoo

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i have published it to http://www.sarahhood.co.uk/upside/productions.htm

do you see what i mean by the gap on the right in the second box. thanks

OBonio

Take out the width="230" in the content cell <td>

It looks like you're setting a width on the table, then the widths of the tds don't add up to the table width!

mollymoo

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ok did that and it sorted the gap problem but now it seems the bottom section now seems to jump up and down. cannot see why it is suddenly doing that when you move between pages. i have published it to a new location

http://www.sarahhood.co.uk/upside2/records.htm

thanks

OBonio

Looks ok in IE, jumps about a little in Firefox though. Not tried in Opera....

It looks like the content of the bottom box is making it jump up and down. The problem with tables is you don't have that much control over how tall it is. Try taking out the graphic for CLEA and just add
padding to the cell.

You could also try forcing a table height with one of the i_spacer.gif <img> tags. If you make one of them the max height that the table will be, it will always be that height. If the content goes over that height, the navigation will jump down again though!

mollymoo

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i seem to have sorted the length thing i thing. but the only prblem left is that the contacts and production page are the same size and the index, records and management pages all have the same second box size when viewing. however, all three pages seem to have the same widths set? I am now stumped!!!!

thanks

mollymoo

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ignore my last statement just hit the refresh button and it was looking at the old pages. thanks. am just trying to sort out the jumping on the bottom on the conatcts and index page as have now set the two table sheights as set.....

thanks for all yr help

OBonio

No problem.

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