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  1. Apr 23rd, 2003, 09:55 AM #1
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    Arrow Tables Need Help!

    Guys, Im having some trouble with some tables. Im not very good at making a layout I guess. I've been viewing the source of alot of websites and trying to study the code though.

    Anyways can anyone paste this code into frontpage or dreamweaver and look at it? I cant get the BLACK columns to line up with the rest of the top. The width is a little to wide I think, but I cant figure it out.

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    <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" width="100%" id="AutoNumber1" height="700">
      <    tr>
        <    td width="100%" height="700">&nbsp;<p>&nbsp;</p>
      
          <    center>
          <    table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" width="98%" id="AutoNumber2" height="553">
            <    tr>
              <    td width="16%" height="553">&nbsp;</td>
              <    td width="68%" height="553">
              <    table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" width="692" id="AutoNumber3" height="25" bgcolor="#C0C0C0">
                <    tr>
                  <    td width="11" rowspan="2" height="25">
                  <    img border="0" src="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/JonB/Desktop/topleft.gif" width="11" height="25"></td>
                  <    td bgcolor="black" width="669" height="2"></td>
                  <    td width="12" height="25" rowspan="2">
                  <    img border="0" src="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/JonB/Desktop/topright.gif" width="11" height="25"></td>
                </    tr>
                <    tr>
                  <    td width="669" height="19">&nbsp;</td>
                </    tr>
              </    table>
              <    table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" width="691" id="AutoNumber4" height="450" bgcolor="#C0C0C0">
                <    tr>
                  <    td bgcolor="black" width="2" valign="top" align="left" height="450">&nbsp;</td>
                  <    td width="85" height="450">&nbsp;</td>
                  <    td width="523" height="450">&nbsp;</td>
                  <    td width="75" height="450">&nbsp;</td>
                  <    td width="4" height="450" bgcolor="#111111" align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td>
                </    tr>
              </    table>
              </    td>
              <    td width="16%" height="553">&nbsp;</td>
            </    tr>
          </    table>
          </    center> 

    Mostly Im just having troubles making tables that have graphics on the outside of them (the curvy ones) so that you can make a table with rounded edges, kinda like at www.cheathouse.com
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  2. Apr 24th, 2003, 05:43 AM #2
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    Yikes, tables!
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  3. Apr 24th, 2003, 11:39 AM #3
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    so? as opposed to what?
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  4. Apr 24th, 2003, 12:10 PM #4
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    You can use tables, but use CSS classes for legibility...
    All contents of the above post that aren't somebody elses are mine, not the property of some media corporation.
    (Just a heads-up)
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  6. Apr 24th, 2003, 01:16 PM #5
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    Tables are a terrible thing, especially when you're not using a graphical designer.

    In my current job I really learned to HATE tables!
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  7. Apr 26th, 2003, 08:08 AM #6
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    Well, I use frontpage and dreamweaver so it isnt that bad.
    Besides, it seems like alot of web pages use tables. I look at the source code for many of them and I see tables everywhere. So how can they be that bad!
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  8. Apr 26th, 2003, 09:03 PM #7
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    They are used because they are the only way for doing layouts that works in older browsers. But they still are bad, especially when you're trying to copy content from a web page to Word when the content is spreaded among several table cells.
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