simple Tables Question

[Paxthegreat]

how do u allign text in a table to the left, now before u say it, i am a n00b to this but i was told to make a web page with jokes on it and the tables i put them in are center alligned

[filburt1]

If you mean align the table:

<table width="100" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="10" align="left">
  <tr>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
</table>

If you mean align the contents:

<table width="100" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="10">
  <tr>
    <td align="left">&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
</table>

[ubunreal69]

<table width="100" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="10">
  <tr>
    <td align="left">
       this will be left aligned
    </td>
    <td align="right">
       this will be right aligned
    </td>
    <td align="center">
       this will be centered
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>

[mendhak]

Or get yourself a good visual HTML editor, like Front Page Express or Dreamweaver

[Paxthegreat]

i've been told to stay away from visual html editors like Frontpage at all costs, "they" told me to use notepad

[JoshT]

Any thing with "FrontPage" in its name tends to be Evil. Dreamweaver is okay if you like WYSIWYG, but I prefer syntax-coloring text editors myself (Homesite, Emacs, etc). There's a free 1stPage program somewhere that's supposed to be good, but its been awhile since I've used it myself.

[mendhak]

why did "they" tell you to use notepad? and stay away from the rest? If you're gonna use notepad... you have to be REEEEEALLLL good then.

I do agree Notepad gives you more control over what you're doing.

BTW, frontpage costs about $50... or try to get a cd from some friend of urz... piracy rulz!!!

[JoshT]

Originally posted by mendhak
BTW, frontpage costs about $50... or try to get a cd from some friend of urz... piracy rulz!!!

No it doesn't - all it cause are stupid laws to get passed, or the creation of a music CD that won't play in your computer, DVD player, or car CD player.

[scoutt]

Originally posted by mendhak
why did "they" tell you to use notepad? and stay away from the rest? If you're gonna use notepad... you have to be REEEEEALLLL good then.

no you don't. if you use a WYSIWYG editor like Dreamweaver and frontpage you won't learn anyhting if for some reason down the road you give up on the editors.

and a major plus is that Frontpage and Dreamweaver are crappy coders, adding there own extensions so nothing runs good.

the code that frontpage produces will not work in Dreamweaver. trust me I tried an experiement with just a simple table and Dreamweaver would not open the table that Frontpage wrote.

frontpage is like IE, they both let you run crappy code. hmmmmm must be a M$ thing........................

[Hastings]

Notepad is the only way I go now. I got fed up with Dreamweaver. By the way, HTML is not hard to learn, just go to webmonkey.com. They have tutorials of pretty much everything.

[filburt1]

The last non-WYSIWYG editor I used was Arachnophilia: http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/ . Very powerful.

[mendhak]

Originally posted by scoutt


and a major plus is that Frontpage and Dreamweaver are crappy coders, adding there own extensions so nothing runs good.

very very true indeed. I use Notepad for designing the HTML pages, but i take them to FP for extensive or repetitive tasks, if I'm running short on time.

And umm... yes, I actually stand corrected... sorry you guys.

[ubunreal69]

WYSIWYG editors arent all that bad, its true that they truly SUCK but its a good thing if youre just looking for "volume" instead of "Content" on the page your creating.

i used Dreamweaver for about a month and hated it, i can do the same stuff faster in a Text editor. now i use Textpad (http://www.textpad.com) and it rocks, nothing short of spectular; I tried "conTEXT" for a bit but i dont like it, textpad is supreme