Re: table extension problem

Thanks for that silly grin Ted. I so look forward to it :-)

You are right though. I did spot part of it too. It is the "%". It *must*
be quoted. Remember "all relative values MUST be enclosed in quotes."

As found in the King James version of the New . . . . oh, never mind.

It currently reads: <.TABLE BORDER=1CELLPADDING=0 CELLSPACING=0 width=100%>

It should be: <.TABLE BORDER=1 CELLPADDING=0 CELLSPACING=0 width="100%">

And I would recommend getting into the habit of putting ~all~ such values,
whether relative or fixed in quotes:

<TABLE BORDER="1" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" width="100%">

It is my humble opinion that this is one of those tiny overlooked details
that are going to come back to bite us in the future. Somebody please speak
up if I'm mistaken (being so far back in the dark ages, you know), but I
believe that *either* of the potential, as of this moment, replacement
languages for HTML that are on the horizon REQUIRE ALL VALUES to be in quotes.

Yea.

That means that if you hang around here long enough you will see me eat my
words about the stability/reliability/inter operability of the 3.2 strict
AND the 4.x strict DTDs.

Because neither of them require/suggest/hint we should be doing that now
with anything except relative values.


HTH,
Fuzzy.


At 05:00 PM 2/13/01 -0800, Ted Temer wrote:
>Greg:
>
>Well--one thing I see is the following line telling the main table to
>squeeze over to the upper left of the page.
>
><DIV Style='position:absolute;left:0;top:0;'>
>
>Removing that line centered up the table rather nice, but it seems to be
>about 95% instead of 100% in width.
>
>I spotted one instance of  a missing space:
>
><TABLE BORDER=1CELLPADDING=0 CELLSPACING=0 width=100%>
>
>But I kind of doubt that this is causing the width of the table to shrink.
>It's just that the above line looks odd to me but I seem to be drawing a
>blank at what I think is wrong. And I don't see any stray <blockquote>'s
>lying about.
>
>I suspect Fuzzy might spot it right off but I can tell you right now, that
>he just might mention the lack of a DOCTYPE [silly grin]
>
>Best wishes
>Ted Temer
>Temercraft Designs Redding, CA
>temer(at)c-zone.net
>www.temercraft.com/novels/
>www.newsredding.com/
>www.ramac-rc.org/
>
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Can someone tell me why the table at
>> http://www.hill-martin.com/test/test.html  does not extend all the way to
>> the right.
>> Thanks,
>> Greg
>>
>
>
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