Table Width
LANKAN
I have some 200 pages website (intranet) which is like a newpaper. I have
used tables to put the contents.
My problem is I want to have these tables' width to be 100% which will help
our visitors to print the contents fully. But, whenever I make a change in
the contents, the width of table and cells will be changed to fixed values
(pixels).
How can I avoid this.? I am tired of getting complaints and loading the
pages in FP2000 and changing them back to 100%.
Is there a quick solution? We use Netscape 4.x and IE 4.x and greater in
our PCs.
Server is NT 4.0 with support for ASP pages.
Please help
LANKAN
BigHead
A few things might be affecting the 'change back' to pixels. I am going to
be simplistic here, so don't think I am patronizing:
1) Are you manually affecting the widths of the tables at all when you enter
content? I.e., are you moving the width of the tables with your mouse? If
so, a pixel measurement is automatically implemented.
2) Are cells within your tables also in %? They need to be - if they are
fixed width (by pixel), then they will tend to override the table settings.
If you have nested tables, this can be cumbersome going in and changing all
the widths - of course, be tedious.
3) Are you only working in one webspace - either offline or online? If not,
make sure you have the same content in both places and are publishing
correctly. If you are working locally, you may want to try a test - when a
single local page is complete, load it up. If you see that the tables still
are not 'corrected', then delete the remote page and load up the local page
again. If you still have problems, then check your local page for the
errors.
SUGGESTION:
Why go to %'s? If this is truly set up like a newspaper site, then you are
going to get some weird wrapping when printed. Why not truly control the
output of your site? Set it to no greater than 620 pixels wide and design
within that scope (see http://www.vhsalumni.com), and your users will love
the way it prints out.
Good luck,
Ted
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