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Greetings Angus Manwaring
>On 30-Aug-00 18:59:12, Chris Hewitt said

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

>This certainly seem to support my experiences.  :-/

>I dug up Voyager which I never use, as I prefer IBrowse, and it displayed
>my table perfectly, I had a width of 1100% and a cell width of 2.5%.
>Result: 11 screens showing one year each in the top (header) row, and
>under that several rows that divided into four horizontally equal portions
>per year. When there's a lot of text in a cell it just wraps, making that
>row bigger vertically, which is fine. Cool!

At least it works somewhere then :-)

[mini-snippage]
>I tried the idea about using pixel values for width as opposed to
>percentages. It works up to a point with IBrowse, as long as each year is
>a bit less than half a screen the text wraps where it needs to, and all is
>well. The only trouble is I wanted each year to be bigger than that
>(ideally a screenwidth).

>...any suggestions?

If you want to wrap the text at an exact point, you can put a <BR> in
and it seems to do the job(ish). The problem with this is that and text
that is on a single line gets centred vertically ie

Cell1 Line1
                     Cell 2 Line1
Cell1 Line2

The other possible way is to use 2 rows, using "&nbsp;" (without the
quotes) where there is no text on the second line.

Failing any of the above, I think you've reached the point where it is
just down to how individual browsers interpret your table. More than
likely each one you try it on will be different from the next. If you
have an URL, I can test it on IE5.5, Opera4, Netscape4.7 & Netscape 6 
Preview2 if you haven't got access to Windows browsers.

Chris

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