Judy, I'll dispose of the pixel issue first. Using percentages is fine, up to a point. If you design your page while having your monitor set to a resolution of 1024x768, it will look fine on anyone else's computer who is at that resolution or higher. However, if the viewer has a lower resolution of 800x600, or, Heaven forbid, 640x480, the effect you wanted may be completely ruined because their browser will be working with a smaller area. Using pixels eliminates that problem. Set the pixel width with the <table width="nnn">. You can then use percentages for the cells. If someone with a lower resolution views it, there will be a horizontal scroll bar rather than the cells being compressed and unintended wraps being put in each cell. Personally, I put all page data inside a single cell table. Immediately following the <body> tag, I put in: <center> <table border="0" width=*850"> <tr><td align=left valign=left" Then, just before the </body> tag: </td></tr> </table> </center> I can then use percentages trhoughout the page. This limits the working area to 850 pixels and centers everything on the page. Note that you don't want to use pixels inside this. If you do and 2 or more items that are side by side add up to more than the 850, you will have a nice mess. :-) As for inserting rows & columns, like Dale, I'd need to see the code. Both Dale and I do all our coding by hand. I'm strongly opposed to the use of most web authoring tools. FP is not as bad as some, but it still creates a page that is at least twice the size of a well done hand coded page. Have you taken a look at CoffeeCup? It allows you to switch back and forth between WYSIWYG and code and it doesn't mess with the code if you do it your own way. I haven't looked at a recently generated FP page. But, most </td> and </tr> tags are not requred in a table. The browser assumes they are there if a new <td> or <tr> tag is encountered. If FP is not putting the end tags in, it could be much more difficult to debug a table. John In loving memory of our son, Brennan. 11/10/88-5/31/01. http://john-slaughter.rootsweb.com/Brennan.html MA-Bay-Colony list moderator USGenWeb County Coordinator Essex County, MA - http://www.rootsweb.com/~maessex Middlesex County, MA - http://www.rootsweb.com/~mamiddle USGenWeb Town Coordinator Ipswich, Essex, MA - http://www.rootsweb.com/~macipswi >From: "Judy Florian" <[email protected]> >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [ROOTSWEB-HELP] Table Question >Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 06:39:15 -0500 > >On 3/23/07, Dale H. Cook <[email protected]> wrote: > > > At 12:46 AM 3/23/2007, Judy Florian wrote: > > > > Judy - > > > > What is the URL of the table? I'll have a look at your code. Setting > > fixed column widths may be the cure. > > > > Dale H. Cook, Member, NEHGS and MA Society of Mayflower Descendants; > > Plymouth Co. MA Coordinator for the USGenWeb Project > > http://members.cox.net/plymouthcolony/index.shtml > > > > >I don't have these uploaded yet. But I pretty much use easy settings on >FP... like 98% for the innermost table, split in half for 2 cols. (50%)... >or allow FP to set widths on multi cols based on what I type in the >cells. A full name for example needs more space than a State abbreviation >like PA, so sometimes I get stuff like 30%, 22%, 18%, 17%, etc. . I >don't >yet understand pixels (like how a tbl can be something like 750 pixels and >that kinda be full size on the page, so I just don't use it.. My >predecessor used pixels in the 700s on tables and I just left them since I >didn't understand. > >Judy > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Live Search Maps find all the local information you need, right when you need it. http://maps.live.com/?icid=hmtag2&FORM=MGAC01