Formatting of columns

[Guest]

I have a page with a table that has 3 columns. When I grab the right side of
the 2nd or the 3rd column and drag it to the left, both columns adjust in
size as you would expect. But when I grab the right side of the first column
and drag it to the left, it will not adjust in size like the other 2.

All three columns have images and text in their corresponding cells.

Anyone have any ideas on what I am doing wrong?

Appreciate any ideas on this,
Mark

 

[David Berry]

Do you have any widths set on the table or any of the cells? What's a URL
so we can take a look?

 

[Guest]

David,

Do you have any widths set on the table or any of the cells? What's a URL
so we can take a look?

Have not posted onto a site yet, just working with it as a design.

It is strange - I can increase the width of the column, but it will only
decrease to a certain point and then stops responding.

It appears what is contained in the cell is causing the problem. I delete
the image and the text and I can then adjust the size to as small as I wish.
If I delete only the image or only the text, I still cannot reduce the width,
so it is not related to the layout of the image.

Both the text and image seem to be unable to start at the beginning lerft
side of the cell, and stop well short of the right side as tho some kind of
margins are set. When I check paragraph formatting, tho, there is no indent
set on the text. The image has no layout set for wrapping text around it
either.

Cell Properties for the first column has a specified width. When I uncheck
this box, and try to drag the width to what I need, it still stops at wider
than I need.

Hope you have some ideas on what else to look for.

Thanks,
Mark

 

[Ronx]

Set cellspacing, cellpadding in table properties.
Check for padding for td elements in any CSS you use - including inline
CSS.

The minimum width for a column or cell is the width required to display
the longest word (between whitespace characters) or widest image plus
any margins or padding. Note that IE is broken since it treats most
punctuation characters in the same way as spaces, that is it allows text
to wrap on hyphens, slashes and brackets, whereas other browsers do not
allow this.

Also bear in mind that Normal/Design View is not a true browser -
preview in at least IE and FireFox to see what is really happening.
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[Guest]

Ronx,

Thanks for the info. I am using FP2002, and do not seem to have properties
for cellspacing/padding in table properties. I do use a CSS and it may be
the problem.

I found another web I created years ago, and was able to use a page from it
where the tables and columns all adjusted as needed, so the problem is
solved. Will have to look into upgrading my FP so I can use the table
properties you mentioned.

Thanks again for your help,
Mark