HTML Tables

[Dillinger4]

Im trying to make a web page. I figured hey why not, But i can't seem to figure out the best way to layout everything out. Is it best to use one big table and make the cols and rows varying widths and heights? Or is it better to have seperate tables? Should i use tables at all? Im not sure. It's being done in FrontPage because that's all i have. My friends have hacked versions of Dreamweaver, Paint Shop pro, Fireworks and everything else but i refuse to use them. I feel software shoud be paid for.

And also how would you get a table next to a table. If say i have a table on the left side of the web page how would i get another talbe on the right side of the page? When i add another table it keeps comming up under everything else.

[crptcblade]

<table align="left" border="1">
    <tr>
        <td>Hello from the left side</td>
    </tr>
</table>

<table align="right" border="1">
    <tr>
        <td>Hello from the right side</td>
    </tr>
</table>

As for the use of tables, I think it depends on how you plan to layout the page.

[Dillinger4]

Ahhhhh ok cool. Thanks HTML is kind of fun.

[chrisjk]

If you want, you can place one off the page and put "Hello from the Dark Side, Jedi" in it

[Dillinger4]

[TheGoldenShogun]

You could also work some tables inside tables.

<table width='700'>

<tr><td width='200'>

<table bgcolor='blue'>
<tr><td>This is the Left Frame, it's Blue</td></tr>
</table>

</td><td>

<table>
<tr><td>This is the Right Frame, it's White</td></tr>
</table>

</td></tr>
</table>

Tables within Tables are good to use but can get confusing if you get too many.

[Cudabean]

Using tables can get frustrating if you are using them for spacing. Sometimes you wind up nesting them several levels deep and the code gets huge and you start to wear the tips of your fingers off.

I'd look at CSS because with Style Sheets you can tell where you want things to go absolutely or relatively, plus you can do things with CSS that you never could with tables. With CSS, you still use tables, but you use them, oddly enough, for tables.

cudabean

[ubunreal69]

Originally posted by Cudabean
Using tables can get frustrating if you are using them for spacing. Sometimes you wind up nesting them several levels deep and the code gets huge and you start to wear the tips of your fingers off.

I'd look at CSS because with Style Sheets you can tell where you want things to go absolutely or relatively, plus you can do things with CSS that you never could with tables. With CSS, you still use tables, but you use them, oddly enough, for tables.

I agree with the fiirst statement, but then again thats why programs like "textpad" were invented and they made code much less confusing to work through.
And CSS is by far the solution to a lot of aligning and positioning problems found in HTML.

ME!