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Re: Can you help me turn the Amiga <Tables>?

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From: Chris Hewitt
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 00:00
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Greetings Angus Manwaring
>On 29-Aug-00 18:36:14, Chris Hewitt said
>>Greetings Angus Manwaring

>>>>Any particular reason you need all 11 years on one page rather than a
>>>>page for each?

>>>I just kind of liked the scrolling through the years concept. :)

>>Yeah, I can live with that :-)

>I appreciate that.  :)


>>When you start getting into dynamic content using databases and PHP
>>things really start to get interesting :-)

>Nice of you to put it that way, but I've got another stupid question....
>:)

>You've got the 11 years in TH row along the top, and then under that
>several columns of 44 cells (4 to a year) Some cells will have more text
>in than others, is there a simple way I can keep all the cells in all the
>rows, the same width, and remain 4 to a year? Table has a length of 1100%
>so a screen width equals a year, BTW.  I've tried shoving in the width
>2.5% in the TD field, but I'm probably doing something wrong.  :-/

Seeing as the table you have is wider than a screen anyway, why not use
absolute widths for the table and columns rather than percentages.
IMO percentage widths are only really useful when you are trying to
present a layout that adapts to someones screen width. I tried a simple
test using absolute widths (ie WIDTH="x" rather that WIDTH="x%") and it
seems to work OK.

All this said, though tables sometimes just seem to have a mind of their
own :-(

Chris

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Subject: Re: Can you help me turn the Amiga <Tables>?
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