Table Format and Properties

Hello,

I have made a table and ironed out some of the glitches with it.
Thanks for help before on that (I bizarrely posted the Q's in the Fireworks forum before).

Anyway, I have now imported the table from one .htm into another one, having made it look like I wanted. As far as I can tell looking at the html code, the properties are all the same, but the table looks totally different.

Can you please take a look at the following links (as usual apologies for the pop-up ads):
traintimebm.htm (ideal table)
brochure11.htm (after copying onto my page)

I am using DW4. The table was originally made in Word and imported, with the tags cleaned up. I then went into each cell individually to remove the extra paragraph returns which doubles the height. Is there any easy way to change the 'paragraph style'?

Thanks in advance.
yesmaybe






Referring URLs
http://www.netcolony.com/travel/monkeyshrine/traintimebm.htm
http://www.netcolony.com/travel/monkeyshrine/brochure11.htm

"yesmaybe" webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com wrote:

Hello,

I have made a table and ironed out some of the glitches with it.
Thanks for help before on that (I bizarrely posted the Q's in the Fireworks forum before).

Anyway, I have now imported the table from one .htm into another one, having made it look like I wanted. As far as I can tell looking at the html code, the properties are all the same, but the table looks totally different.

Can you please take a look at the following links (as usual apologies for the pop-up ads):
traintimebm.htm (ideal table)
brochure11.htm (after copying onto my page)

I am using DW4. The table was originally made in Word and imported, with the tags cleaned up. I then went into each cell individually to remove the extra paragraph returns which doubles the height. Is there any easy way to change the 'paragraph style'?

Actually, you should create your own table instead of copying a table
with that much junk code. If you do, you will get leaner code, and
you'll learn a lot. It's not very difficult.

Go here and learn how to take control over cells:
http://great-web-sights.com/tutorial/tables/tables.html

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Ok, so my table has lots of extra code. That is because I made the table on Word.
I learned how to take control of cells by making the table a percent rather than fixed width. That works well for me. But why doesn't the cell like the 'end of line return'
I am starting again from scratch. But the same problem exists. As soon as I press 'return' inside a cell, it makes a huge paragraph return and doubles the height of the cell. How can I avoid this and have a list of words, underneath each other,
like this paragraph

not

like this

paragraph.

Thanks,
yesmaybe

It is clearly not the answer, I just wanted to put my new question at the top of the page, as in a sequential order, rather than at the bottom, far away from Dan's reply.

Sorry!

As well as what Dan said, the way to get the words to wrap to the next line in
a normal paragraph is to just keep writing! See how it wraps normally when you
keep writing in this post? It does that in table cells, too.

<p>If you write<br>
your paragraphs<br>
like this, you are<br>
bound to have<br>
a ton of trouble.<br>
This is a load of<br>
crap, and ought<br>
never be done.</p>

If you're writing a list of something and don't want to actually put it in an
html list, then it is acceptable to put line breaks between the list. For
example, in my work I used:

Dreamweaver<br>
Fireworks<br>
TopStyle<br>
Homesites+<br>

See what I mean jelly bean?

In the first one, it may look ok on your screen, but then I will open it in my
browser and what I'll see is this:

If you write
your
paragraphs
like this, you
are
bound to have
a ton of
trouble.
This is a load of
crap, and
ought
never be done.

Nice lookin paragraph, eh??

Just write naturally and when your writing comes to the end of a line it'll
wrap naturally. If you are having trouble with your cells becoming wider as you
type, then you should learn more about tables. Giving them a width (in fixed
pixels or in %'s) is not, however, the answer, unless the width = 100%.

Read the table tutorials at Dreamweaver FAQs, the 5th link in my signature
below.

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"yesmaybe" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

It is clearly not the answer, I just wanted to put my new question at the top
of the page, as in a sequential order, rather than at the bottom, far away from

Dan's reply.

Sorry!