Thanks Bob, Dr. Bob, and Pat :-) All answers seem reasonable. Will play around. CSS will have to wait until next year when I hope to learn some. Sorry Pat you spent so much time on answering in CSS. From now on I will preface my questions with a warning that I am not CSS conversant. But your time is not wasted as your email will go into a CSS folder for future reference. George On 18 Dec 2009 at 11:57, Robert Sullivan wrote: > > Here is another question about tables.  Is there a way to > > specify the column widths globally?  As you can see, I > > repeatedly specify the width in each <TD. > > The <col> tag will do what you want. > > <http://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/tag_col.asp> > > N.B. although this is part of the HTML standard, not all browsers > support all its attributes. The page above notes that Firefox only > supports "width" which means any alignment commands will be ignored. > I believe this is also the case with IE8 and Chrome. Your mileage may > vary about whether this would prevent you from using it. > > -- > Bob Sullivan > Schenectady Digital History Archive > <http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/> > Schenectady County (NY) Public Library > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ROOTSWEB-HELP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message