h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Hello! Awesome Page! Listen I was wondering if it was alright if I looked at your page from time to time for help with mine. Don't get me wrong, I'm not going to model my page after yours, but I'd like to use some of the source code for the tables. I just want my to be opaque. I have learned HTML and all, but I still have trouble with pages. if you could give me some tips that would be great! Thanks,

~PLATO~

P.S. I'll even put a Link and a thank you on my space

Hi Plato,

Thank you, thank you, flattery will get you everywhere.

Feel free to take a look at my page, best thing to do is look at the code and cut'n'paste it it into a text editor and mess around with it.

The tables are simple enough in themselves, but the problem is going to be keeping track of them as I have them nested within tables within tables so it all gets a bit confusing. (It cause my brain to require a reboot every now and then).

Anyway on to your opaque border request.

To set it to a specific colour you need to specify bordercolor="#HEXCODE" in the table tag.

However if you want a gap between cells that remains the same as the background colour of the viewers chosen skin. you will need to specify the bgcolor of each TD (or TR) individually, have no bgcolor specified in the Table tag and set the cellspacing (attribute in the table tag) to whatever distance you would like between your cells. (This will work in both IE and Netscape)

The coloured borders can look a bit pants in Netscape and I have to confess to having been a bit lazy with my page in this respect. To get nice coloured 'Flat' borders in both IE and Netscape you don't use the border options at all (set the border to border="0") and use 'nested' tables with specified bgcolors and set the cellpadding of the primary table to the width of border you want.


eg:







Page Contents







This should give you a white table with a red border which will look ok in both Netscape and IE.

Anyway, let me know how you get on and if you have any other specific questions please post them here and I will get back to you.

Good luck!

JAVAM

Thanks JAVAM! Hey listen, I was wondering how to set a certain width to a pull down list. Plaese check out my page and you'll see why I need to know.


-Plato

Ah,, Drop down boxes the tricky rascals. Sadly I don't know of any dead sure way of getting this right under the h2g2 restrictions, however you could try adding a row of dots to the first option to increase the size. e.g.:

Reviewed Movies............

That will then increases the size of the box. Then taking the ....'s and a trial and error approach you should be able to get them to all be the same size by using a different number of ...'s you could also use ----. I sometimes use ---------Please Select---------- to set the size of my drop downs.

Hope that is some help

JAVAM

Thanks! Listen, All I did was to add an extra OPTION tag, give it no value, and give it ........................ I did this to all my lists, and they're all the same length.