Cell wont resize? :S

[={ Advocated }=]

Hey there, on here:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/c.jones13/Test/index2diffcol.htm

If you look, you will see the red cell, ive coloured this to show the
problem, and have turned on borders to see too. Thing is i want that one
cell to be really small in width, but it just wont go any smaller.., Any
ideas?

apreciate the help

 

[Ben Dover - Mental Patient 0057]

you've got a lot of cleaning up to do.
that red cell has so many font tags, div tags, br tags, etc.
then, you need to set the td tags width to a number for example
width="1"
the small cell just below the red cell needs to have the same width
setting.

if the cell above is 10pixels wide and the bottom one is 1 pixel wide,
then the border will take the larger of the two.
and with the same settings, if the bottom one has the word "computer"
then the border will take the width of "computer" because it will be
more than 10 pixels.

you should try your experiment on a clean piece of paper (a new blank
html file) makes your life easier.

 

[={ Advocated }=]

"Ben Dover - Mental Patient 0057"

you've got a lot of cleaning up to do.
that red cell has so many font tags, div tags, br tags, etc.
then, you need to set the td tags width to a number for example
width="1"
the small cell just below the red cell needs to have the same width
setting.

if the cell above is 10pixels wide and the bottom one is 1 pixel wide,
then the border will take the larger of the two.
and with the same settings, if the bottom one has the word "computer"
then the border will take the width of "computer" because it will be
more than 10 pixels.

you should try your experiment on a clean piece of paper (a new blank
html file) makes your life easier.

For some reaason though it wont allow me to enter a size for the width of
that cell once ive clicked on it :S

I was messing in dreamweaver, and it actually looks like its gone smaller,
but when viewed, its Mahhosive!!!!

 

[Els]

Hey there, on here:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/c.jones13/Test/index2diffcol.htm

If you look, you will see the red cell, ive coloured this to show the
problem, and have turned on borders to see too. Thing is i want that one
cell to be really small in width, but it just wont go any smaller.., Any
ideas?

Maybe you could try to define a width for that cell? Now all
you defined, is colspan=2.
Also, the other cells, their width being set to resp. 5%,
55%, 31% and 7%, always will leave 2% for your red cell...
unless it's content is bigger than that.

But if this red cell has to be so small in width, why does
it have
<div align="center"></div>
<div align="center">
<p align="center"><font color="#FFFFFF"
face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong><em>
<br>
</em></strong></font></p>
</div>
inside of it?

 

[Els]

={ Advocated }= wrote:

For some reaason though it wont allow me to enter a size for the width of
that cell once ive clicked on it :S

I don't know Dreamweaver, but it could be because of the
colspan=2? Take the colspan=2 out, change the colspan=4 in
the other cels to colspan=3, and I guess you would be
'allowed' to set a width to the cell then.

 

[Els]

Superb, removed the colspan 2, and changed colspan 4 to 3.. Works fine

Thanks
What exactly has that done tho?

If you don't understand that, please, please, please, read
any (*any*) instruction on html first, before you try
anything more ;-)
You didn't build this table, did you?

 

[={ Advocated }=]

If you don't understand that, please, please, please, read
any (*any*) instruction on html first, before you try
anything more ;-)
You didn't build this table, did you?

Yea i did build the table, all im doing at the moment is playing around with
dreamweaver, just testing things, and seeing what things do.

 

[Els]

Yea i did build the table, all im doing at the moment is playing around with
dreamweaver, just testing things, and seeing what things do.

Why did you make that cell two columns wide then, if you
needed it so narrow? Well, anyway, you can't set a width to
a cell which already has a width defined, by the two columns
it consists of. Only you hadn't defined the width of
either column, so maybe that's why you didn't see it's
logic. ;-)

But I will repeat myself here: please do read a basic
instruction on html, before you 'play around' with
Dreamweaver...
Also, if you have a problem with anything in your code, make
a very simple copy of the stuff (take out anything
superfluous, narrow it down to the problem,) to see where
you went wrong. This also makes it easier for people here to
go through your code and suggest corrections.