RE: Dreamweaver Aggravation 2.1

["Gordon McLean" <Gordon -dot- McLean -at- GrahamTechnology -dot- com>]

Ahh the joys of nested tables. A necessary evil on occasion, I avoid them
like the plague these days.

I'd always suggest that understanding the structure of an HTML page, at the
HTML code level, is a necessity. Design view can hide a lot of evils.

And out of curiosity, why do you have a table cell set to align the text
centrally, then override that with a DIV set to align the text to the left?

<td width="592" height="740" align="center"><div align="left"></div>

Anyhoo, well done on figuring it out. As you rightly point out, knowing WHAT
to Google for is an art form in itself!

Gordon 

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Subject: Dreamweaver Aggravation 2.1



This time I found the bug!

I had to add td valign="top" to this string:  <td width="592" height="740"
align="center">

You know, that has to be the most frustrating thing about technical
communication.  How to ask the right question, and how to know what people
are really asking.  No matter how many ways I googled this one, everything I
read said "add td valign="top"   Okay - did that, NOW what?  >grin<  nothing
I read said where.  It just happened to dawn on me as I read the code over
for what seemed like the millionth time. 

BTW - I'm a student in this field.  A middle-aged re-career-er. You may be
hearing more from me. 

Thanks!

Ev



Well – the good news about my previous problem is that it forced me to learn
to create templates in the layout mode.  Okay – the DESIGN looks much
cleaner.  But now the text won't go where I want it to.  I have an editable
region – a table for the body content.  The code for the table reads:


<td height="740"></td>
            <td valign="top"><!-- TemplateBeginEditable name="BodyContent"
-->
              <table width="100%" height="100%" border="0" align="left"
cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
                <!--DWLayoutTable-->
                <tr>
                  <td width="592" height="740" align="center"><div
align="left"></div>
                  </td>

Notice it does say valign=”top”

Where does the text go?  Valign=”center” !!  Leaving, obviously, a huge,
gaping, empty filed where my text should start. 

It will move left, right or center on the horizontal plane however I code
it.  But vertical?  Hmph.  

The table is nested.  

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Ev

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