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I can't do them!

Teaching myself HTML and I can do nearly everything, but tables

I just cannot, for the life of me, work out how to do the things! If I could figure it out, I could make my space look so much better!

You know, I could never get the hang of them myself...

Er, I know this isn't the proper place to do this, but I'm really sorry I forgot to say that you were partying at my Club too. I guess I wasn't really paying attention and was a little out of it whilst replying.

But now that I've gotten the chance to apologize (because I did feel rather bad, you know), let's talk tables.

I honestly have no clue how to do them, and when I try I just end up sitting at my computer for hours trying to work it all out. I've decided to give up. If tables want to be so annoying, then they can just go Zark off.

Yoss.....here, have a !!

I was partying quietly in the background!

Tables...
I'm damned if I'm giving up though! The little b**gers won't beat me....no, no...oh, well, maybe they will!

My page will just have to stay odd-looking! I have more people to add to my Smiley People list, and I really wanted to put them all in a table, but never mind!

Good to see you're staying...even if it's only for a while.

Tables !

One minute they sit nicely in the middle of your screen, the next there's cells all over the place !

OK, the basic commands:










The main problem with tables in HTML is closing all of the commands, which have to be done in the right order. Annoyingly, in GuideML fonts in tables are automatically set to size "2". There are also many more commands than those above.

An Example:





This is your table data




Then another table data






And another row





Hope this helps

WebSherpa

Now I have no excuse for my sadly untabled space!

I will be experimenting tonight, but maybe on my test page, just in case!!

A bit more explaination:

- Table rows.

- Table data. These go in table rows.

- Table heads. These arn't used very often and sometimes not at all. They behave like s.

COLSPAN="#" - Column spanning, covering more than one table column defined by s in rows above. Used in second or later row.

ROWSPAN="#" - Row spanning, covering more than one row defined by rows above. Used in second or later row.

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