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smaug -> mysterious black space on index top section (2/20/2007 21:23:38)
greetings. I am a real newbie to DW8. was given a DW site to fix that I thought was going to be a FP site and am having trouble with the top section. www.covatorealty.com is the site. the offending black space is on either side of the top image on the index page. I can't seem to find it in the code. ppppplllllease help.

rubyaim -> RE: mysterious black space on index top section (2/20/2007 21:39:58)
Hi, if you make the two top tables 100% wide it will probably fix the black space. When that's done, you may need to look at the fixed widths on the cells - one thing always seems to lead to another [:)]

smaug -> RE: mysterious black space on index top section (2/20/2007 21:50:21)
sorry for being so density, Sally, but which two top tables do you mean? the ones in the center, lets call it text area? or the ones right under the image? The tables under the image are in the section-top.php file the others are in the index.php can we PM on this?

rubyaim -> RE: mysterious black space on index top section (2/20/2007 22:00:18)
Hey smaug, I'm afraid I'm not much use with PHP but here is a guess. ==== EDIT: I think you will have to open both files, find where the table width is 760 and amend it to 100%. ==== Look at the code of the page and you should see this at the top (just under the <body> tag) <table width="760" align="center" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> Change the width on those two table to 100% like: <table width="100%" align="center" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> If that's no good holler and I'll open up DW to see how to do it in wysiwyg view.

jurgen -> RE: mysterious black space on index top section (2/20/2007 22:07:39)

      <table width="700" border="0" cellpadding="6">
        <tr>
          <td><div align="center"><a href="real-estate-news.php">Real Estate News </a><br> 
          </div></td>
        </tr>
      </table>
      <table width="700" border="0" cellpadding="6">
        
      </table>

Try to change the width of "700" to 100% that should help shrinking the page.....

smaug -> RE: mysterious black space on index top section (2/20/2007 22:15:36)
nice try no cigar. Sally, this is probably a real estate template. I have changed the table widths on the section-top to 100%, no change. If I select table, the whole page is selected, but I cannot find where to reset the page width from 1200 to 760, which is the width of the top image. I really appreciate your helping, cause I am losing sleep over this one

rubyaim -> RE: mysterious black space on index top section (2/20/2007 22:18:22)
Don't give up yet, change it on the index.php page as well and we will see what happens. It's difficult when you inherit a site.

smaug -> RE: mysterious black space on index top section (2/20/2007 22:30:02)
if this is a locked area of the template, how can it be unlocked? do I have to dump the page and recreate? can I put the <? include("section-left.php") ?> , top, bottom and right, anywhere in the <body> and then once the borders are there, recreate the page piece by piece? btw, here is the offending code: <table width="1215" align="center" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr bgcolor="#000000"> I have changed the width to 100%, to 760 and it changes back.

rubyaim -> RE: mysterious black space on index top section (2/20/2007 22:32:40)
smaug, I opened DW .... in design view, you should be able to change the table width in the dropdown in 'Properties' - screenshot attached. [image]local://upfiles/15617/82F9CECADC5E474C981F72C60B7DE6BD.gif[/image]

rubyaim -> RE: mysterious black space on index top section (2/20/2007 22:39:18)
quote: if this is a locked area of the template, how can it be unlocked You could try selecting the table and then Modify > Templates > Make Attribute Editable. Take a look at 'Site' as well and see if 'check in' is being used (probably not...but worth checking).

smaug -> RE: mysterious black space on index top section (2/20/2007 22:47:33)
been there done that. it 1) doesn't change the physical width and 2) it changes back to 1200 I am convinced it is a locked template and I have to nuke it from orbit and start anew. your thoughts

rubyaim -> RE: mysterious black space on index top section (2/20/2007 22:55:01)
Well, if the attribute refuses to become editable, I'd be inclined to nuke it. Before you do that though, do a quick search in the DW Help for 'unlock' as well as 'editable regions' and try a few things to see if you can edit the tables. Will you be responsible for this from now on? If so, and if it were me, I'd be inclined to start again as there is a fair bit of code in there that could be streamlined. In the long run a fresh start may be easier for long term management.

smaug -> RE: mysterious black space on index top section (2/20/2007 23:10:05)
thank you for confirming what I had already decided. The owner was real antsy to get the site functioning and I neglected to warn of possible fubars. It was great talking with you, thanks again for your help and I hope to get you again when I need a hand. [:)]

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