pading in table cells?

hmm.. that doesn't work, the width of the cells stays bigger than adjusted.

<td width="80" height="32" valign="middle" bgcolor="#E8961A"><div
align="center" class="style9"><span class="style8"><a
href="$weblogRootURL$">$c.categoryName$ </a></span></div></td>
<td width="6" height="32"></td>
$]c.isDefaultCategory[$

after the substitution variable $c.categoryNAme$ i added a space character but
nothing changed! i use firefox.

You need to add the space character in the *middle* of your *data* (i.e.
whatever is store in $c.categoryName$) at the place where you would like
the text to break to a new line.

Another option is to use the CSS overflow property. This will hide the
excess data (as opposed to wrapping it to the next line).

Hope this helps,
Randy

hmm.. that doesn't work, the width of the cells stays bigger than adjusted.

td width="80" height="32" valign="middle" bgcolor="#E8961A"><div
align="center" class="style9"><span class="style8"><a
href="$weblogRootURL$">$c.categoryName$ </a></span></div></td
<td width="6" height="32"></td
$]c.isDefaultCategory[$

after the substitution variable $c.categoryNAme$ i added a space character but
nothing changed! i use firefox.

that doesn't work either! maybe i explained it so that it's hard to understand.
here is the URL: www.bloghof.net/Daenz
as you see there the orange nav buttons are much too big to fit onto the
banner on the top. and their sizes change. (there many other problems as you
see but this is the one i don't know how to solve!)