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Whitespace in right margin of table cells containing text - 6/29/2001 18:45:00

Okay, I am going to have to start posting under different aliases so as not to make a total fool out of myself... I have searched the archives and reread the table primer for this one and I am still clueless (my next alias).

I have a master table as the "content" area sandwiched between shared top and bottom borders. I have double checked all the pixel math and the table and paragraph properties to make sure there are no pads, space, or indents in any of the cells.

It seems all cells in the master table containing only text have an internal right margin of approx 3/8". This space is very obvious when you right or justify align the text in a cell. There is no white space at the left, top, or bottom in any cell in the table.

Some are merged cells, come are not. Some are in the left-most column, some are on the right. The cells containing an image or a component are fine; that is, I can push them right up against the right-side edge of the cell boundary if I so choose.

I tried deleting the offending text and retyping it directly into FP. As a type, it wraps where the mysterious right margin seems to be set in the cell.

Initially the table was smaller. After some design changes, it is now bigger, and it seems the text chunks did not fully take advantage of the new space I gave the cells in which they reside. This could be the byproduct of newbie delusional illusion.

Everything else looks great and when I set the borders to 1 pixel, the table and cell borders are exactly where I want them to appear both in the normal, preview and browser views. It also prints correctly. Browser compatibility is set to IE4+ only.

At some point, once I know exactly how I want the table to be sized (I am most concerned with locking down the horizontal sizing), how do I CHAIN THIS WILD FP BEAST DOWN and keep it that way? I just want the table to gracefully expand vertically as needed to incorporate content and keep those columns widths where I (finally) put 'em!

Thanks to all for your patience!
fried

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RE: Whitespace in right margin of table cells containin... - 6/29/2001 19:03:00

It is really really difficult to comment on this without seeing the code. If you do not have the page published perhaps you could post it here? If oyu do not want to do that email it to me and I will take a look.

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Guest

RE: Whitespace in right margin of table cells containin... - 6/29/2001 22:36:00

I dived into the html and looked at every width= tag. Lo and behold, one was not correct. I think it was a remnant from an h2 element that had been modified, but I am not sure exactly how this tag became broken. It was defined outside the table, but I was using h2 headers inside the table as well as outside.

Carefully edited each width tag and everything cleared up. Yea!!!

When I started this project, I worked very hard in PSP7Pro to get the background and shared borders just they way I wanted them. When I got to the content section, I rather quickly went to FP and as a result spent a lot of time messing around with the table layout.

In retrospect, I probably should have spent as much time in PSP7Pro working on the detailed table layout as I did on the overall page before jumping into FP. It seems that if one gets as much right as possible before going to html, one is less likely to encounter these quirky little coding problems.

I am finding that FP's ultimate best use is to generate html code; as such, its not (yet) a *totally* forgiving design environment/tool. Its still pretty awesome!

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