Hi,

I have designed a page within a table - three columns all adding up to 100% (no fixed pixel column widths). The thing is that when I previously previewed it in other browsers it showed the whole page - a but squashed, but everything was in the window without having to scroll horizontaly. I made some adjustments without interfering with column widths, but now previews require horizontal scrolling to view the page.

Previously the text links in the centre column would wrap to cater for the smaller browser size, but not now. Also, at the foot of the page there is a blue line - wider than the table - that has not been added by me and is not editable - looks like some sort of formatting indicator

Any ideas? I'd rather not send the code - so, if anyone has an idea what's wrong it'd be greatly apreciated

I would imagine it is the bottom blue item that is causing the scrolling, if the table is still 100% (or columns add up to 100%). If you take a look at the source code for the blue object you should have a clear idea as to what it is. Remove it and all should be set back to normal with no horizontal scrolling. If it comes after the table, it would precede the </table> tag.

thanks for the comments...the thing is that the blue line can't be highlighted and I can't see it in the code of the page. In other words if it was - say - a normal horizontal line I could highlight and figure our what was wrong with the code - in this case I can't

It would really help to know what Browser you are using and be able to see the source html for the page. Have you run the code through the css-validator at w3c.org? There are several possibilities for correcting the problem, but the first would be to supply us with the above information. And include the css, also.

why don't you use CSS positioning rather than <table> tag
try also use XHTML rather than HTML

here are some examples how to make it with CSS

hope that helps you

I've never seen anything like a "blue line" being created by the browser except around an image linked unless you set its border to "0". Can you just paste the code in here so we can see it? And yes, css is the way to go for general layout/positioning, not tables!

-dHarry

I agree with jlhaslip to run the validator. However, the validator sometimes give weird results that we all might simply ignore. Even professional websites include these errors. Take Microsoft.com for example. Try validating Microsoft's site and you will see why.


Your problem should be a simple one. However, we cannot help you much without showing us your codes. If you had important data in your codes, you can always create another copy and remove the data. We just want to see your table codes to see if it's compatible with many browsers. Recently I'm been making a webpage and I had similar problems regarding the thick blue bar that you saw on another browser. For mine, I saw it on Opera browser while Firefox and IE appeared pretty fine. Also, with much experience in web development, you will realise that what you created is not always what you want as viewed on other browsers when CSS is involved. Without CSS, almost all the times you will see similar results in all web browsers. Because CSS is rather new technology, there has not been a standard that all browsers follow to render CSS codes properly. Hence you will have to take note on particular CSS codes.

Apart from showing us a sample of your HTML table code, a screen shot of what you see in both or all the browsers that you used will be good for us to look into the problem in more details.

Columns
Fp2003 - Tables

How do I post a reply in a forum that reads in columns?

Instead of listing each item that I'm putting in the reply, I'd like it to be in comumns.

Wed.

Apple
Peaches
Pumpkin
Pie

Thu.

First
Last
Slow
Fast

Fri.

Red
Orange
Yellow
Blue

-reply by Scott