formatting text problem

[Guest]

I have a page using a master page the master page consists of a header and
left column table template. In the content area of the default page, I need
to place alot of text. I initially had a table with 1 column and a number of
rows for each paragraph so there would be space between each chunk of text.
However, all the text would not fill up the cells (rows) but instead only
about 10 letters on each line appeared with the rest of the cell to the right
of this text being blank. (like the text was "clingling to the left side
althought there was no alignment of any kind) I then removed the table and
was using labels for each paragraph but I don't know how to put spaces
between labels.

Why is the text not filling out each cell? What is the preferred method of
doing this simple thing?

I am a vb.net windows programmer and have no experience with this kind of
strange behavior.

 

[Guest]

smHaig,

Thanks for trying two differnt methods.
Here's some quick html help.
Is a space in html
<br /> is a line break

Put a line break between your paragraph labels. You can do this visually in
the designer by moving the cursor directly after the label and pressing the
enter key, Visual Studio will add a line break to your page markup.

Good Luck
DWS

 

[Guest]

Do you mean between the labels? because I was putting the text in the labels
in the attempt to prevent the problem I was having which is that when the
text to put in table cells it looks like this:

the text stops at

this position and
does not
go to the end of the
cell which is the entire
length of the page. This
is in a content section
since I have a master
page that has an image
on the left hand side.

What is the correct way to put alot of text on a page. If in a table, which
is what I presumed it to be, why is the above happening when I have no
alignments on my 1 col table?

 

[Guest]

I think I have figured it out and it is cautionary tale for programmers not
familiar with the vagaries of HTML. "Look at the source. Don't trust the
design."

Although I had spread out my table to cover the entire content section and
the souce indicated it was 734px, each row maintained the original table
size, 100 px. thus when I ran it, the text, though looking like it went
across 734px in design mode, really only went 100 px, thus the "clinging to
the margin" look. When I went into the source and changed the size of each
row to 734, it went across ok (it looks like it did when I ran it anyway). I
feel like I am back with foxpro for dos: @row...@col, etc.