Table width - not true

[Diana]

I told a table to be 500 pixels wide. And so ... it
reported that it was 500 pixels wide.

When I compared it to other tables, (same width), my table
(above) displayed much larger. I finally discovered that
this is explained by the cell padding (that I used for my
border effects). It would seem that Frontpage isn't
adding those values when reporting the overall table
width.

How do I overcome this? I don't want the table to be
larger than 500 pixels in width. Do I have to do the math
and tell the table to be a value (less the border padding)
each time?

Thanks for your help.

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Yes, you must do the math. The table is 500 pixels minimum in width, when
you add padding, you reduce the inside of the table to less than 500 pixels,
so if you insert a image that is 500 pixels, and you have padding set to 10,
then the table will expand to fit the image, however the width shown will
not increase to 520 pixels.

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[Diana]

Well, Thomas, I don't like it, but at least I know. I
gotta say that it's tedious. The particular table where
this was happening, had several columns and with a padding
of 8 for each cell, so it'd be 2x8x# of columns. I can do
the math ... it's just frustrating that they didn't put in
the code to accomodate those options. Maybe in the next
release.

Thanks for letting me know. Your knowledge is valuable.
Diana