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Questions About Formatting Tables
Hi Gang -

I need a bit of help on formatting some tables - I've tried to tweak them and I still cannot get them to work the way they need to. At first I thought it had something to do with a long pink line graphic that I have at the top of the site - after playing with it for a while, I know that this is not the problem.

The first formquestion is about the following page:
http://venusimaging.com/cgi-bin/links/page.cgi?g=Plus_Size_Clothing%2Findex.html&d=1

What I am trying to do is to keep the table from going so far to the right that people have to scroll to see what is over there.

Same thing on the following page:
http://venusimaging.com/cgi-bin/links/page.cgi?g=Plus_Size_Clothing%2FActivewear%2Findex.html&d=1

Thanks for your help!

Valery
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Valery
http://www.VenusDivas.com
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Re: [valeryvie] Questions About Formatting Tables In reply to
Hi Valery,

there are few things to do.

1. Your pinkline6.gif is 1007 pixels wide. Your best bet to get it to run all the way across is to put the pinkline in the background of that cell with a spacer as the contents. like this.

<td width=100% background=url_of/pinkline6.gif><img src=spacer.gif height=3 width=1></td>

This way you don't have to worry about the actual width of the pinkline as it will tile 100% of the way across regardless of the browser viewing the site.

You have 2 images called pinkline6.gif. The one at the bottom is relative and the width is hard coded to 1007. Again, but this in the background of the cell. It's stretching your page out.

2. You have a table tag set to 745 which is also forcing the page wider. My guess is that its the default <%body_width%> global tag variable. Change it to 100%. I don't know how that will affect the rest of your site, but that's probably where it's coming from in the page I'm looking at.

Best of Luck.

peace.
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Re: [klangan] Questions About Formatting Tables In reply to
Thanks so much - I will see what I can do :-)

Back at ya!

V ~
Valery
http://www.VenusDivas.com