ianrules — Sat, 23 Sep 2000 00:24:16 +0000

ok thanx I never thought of the percentage widths
as far as the PRE tag i put that 'cause I was too lazy to put BR a hundred times and I wa trying to solve my own problem when I put in the WRAP thing(becuase in textarea it does something). thanks

Bimjo — Sat, 23 Sep 2000 00:20:30 +0000

Ian,

Your table has three columns: a left navigation column, a center text column, and a right off-site links column.

The table is defined as width="100%" (okay so far). The left column has width="33%" (still okay) the center column has width="67%" - oops! We're out of table width and still have another whole column to go. What's a browser to do?

In this case it opted to expand the table beyond the right edge of the screen. There are some other issues as well, but one thing at a time.

First, change the width on the left column to a fixed pixel width, about 150 to start ( width="150" - you can adjust later as needed), then change the center column to width="100%". Then add width="150" to the right column cell tag. This should solve the main problem with the page.

I would remove the PRE tags and the WRAP=PHYSICAL attributes. They aren't doing what you want, and in the case of the WRAP, aren't valid (thus ignored) in tables anyway.

Running your page through a validation program (either online - http://validator.w3.org/ , or offline - http://www.htmlvalidator.com/ ) will help you troubleshoot your page and find these sort of issues yourself.

hth