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Nesting Tables help

I am studing HTML and I do not fully understand how to nest tables together in order to make a web site. I can complete one table and center it, but as for applying another table ontop of another without using Dreamweaver, it's imposible. Could anyone help me?

This is what I wrote so far:

<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="909" height="900%" >
<td style:"center" bgcolor="ffffff" width="100% heigh="9000%" font size:"2" face="verdana">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<TD valign="top" width="95"><TABLE BORDER="0" cellspacing="0" CELLPADDING="0" bgcolor="#EFEDED" width="98"><TR><TD>

I spot a couple errors in your HTML.

Code:

<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="909" height="900">
<tr>
<td align="center" bgcolor="ffffff" width="100% height="9000%">
<font size="2" face="verdana">Blah blah</font>
</td>
<TD valign="top" width="95"><TABLE BORDER="0" cellspacing="0" CELLPADDING="0" bgcolor="#EFEDED" width="98"><TR><TD>

That should get you going. Kirstin I'd be cheating you if I didn't tell you that tables are an archaic, sloppy way of doing things. There's a much cleaner, simpler way to lay your pages out.

Either way, I'll be glad to help you out more. Post back with any more questions!

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Jon Culver Chia Pets

Well, for right now, this is what I am learning for my college course. I know that CSS is the way to go, but I am not that far yet. Anyway, is there any tutorials to learn a cleaner way a head of what I am curently doing?

THanks for your help!

I'd suggest the bible of standards-driven design, Designing with Web Standards by Jeffrey Zeldman. He's a pioneer and a helluva writer. I bought it several years after I started coding with standards and I still learned a good deal.

Here's a cute presentation that makes a great argument for switching, chocked with some good links. http://www.hotdesign.com/seybold/

A nice short tutorial someone wrote for this site a few years back: http://home.comcast.net/~fredv4/xhtml/

Thread full of helpful links here: http://forums.neverside.com/thread/78340/

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Jon Culver Chia Pets

Fixed it

Last edited by Kristin, January 13th, 2008 03:20 AM (Edited 3 times)