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Table size and centred?

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Richy1
Starting Member

27 Posts

Posted - 2007-05-11 : 09:53:51

Hi all, this is such a simple thing but its driving me nuts! Im making a master page right now, 3 columns in a table. An image at the top, and another at the bottom, very simple. But for the life of me, i cannot centre the table, and i have this white line around the table - i cannot fix it at the very top. Of course u can do this in dreamweaver no problems, but not in the visual web developer.

Must be very simple surely? Thx all.

Lamprey
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

4614 Posts

Posted - 2007-05-11 : 12:22:54

This is SQL server forum, but you could try something like:

	<table border="1" align="center">
		<tr><td> foo </td></tr>
	</table>

spirit1
Cybernetic Yak Master

11752 Posts

Posted - 2007-05-11 : 12:50:51

set cellpadding or cellspacing to 0 in the table tag.

Also, topic moved from New to Sql Server Forum.

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Richy1
Starting Member

27 Posts

Posted - 2007-05-14 : 04:17:28

Thx all, ive managed to get the table to fit into the border, but cant quite get it centred -

<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="center" style="width: 750px; height: 100%; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); text-align: center; left: 0px; font-family: Arial; position: relative; top: 0px; visibility: visible; background-color: white;">

Tried the align="center" above but doesnt work. Any ideas? thx.

SwePeso
Patron Saint of Lost Yaks

30421 Posts

Posted - 2007-05-14 : 05:08:14

What are the "CLIP" and "RECT" directives?

Peter Larsson
Helsingborg, Sweden

Richy1
Starting Member

27 Posts

Posted - 2007-05-14 : 06:50:11

i have absolutely no idea! Ive been trying to get this table centered and somewhere down the line i created that also.....

cvraghu
Posting Yak Master

187 Posts

Posted - 2007-05-14 : 14:52:05

I think 'position', 'top' and 'left' attributes cannot go along with 'align' attribute. Try removing them. I was not able to find any online help wrt this.

Richy1
Starting Member

27 Posts

Posted - 2007-05-15 : 05:07:50

Hmmm, still wont center the table. Has anyone else managed to do that? Heres what i got so far -

<body style="margin: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; background-image: url(images/back.gif);">
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<div style="clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); left: 0px; width: 68px; position: static; top: 0px; height: 72px;" align="center">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="center" style="width: 760px; height: 100%; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); font-family: Arial; background-color: white;">
<tr>

jsmith8858
Dr. Cross Join

7423 Posts

Posted - 2007-05-15 : 08:10:25

I still am not sure what you are trying to do, but remember: if you want an element (i.e., a table) to be centered within a parent element (i.e., a DIV or a BODY element), you apply the "text-align: center" style to the PARENT element, not the table itself.

Like this:


<body>
  <div style="width: 100%; text-align:center;">

     <table width="500px">
       ....  this table should now be centered on the web page ....
     </table>
  </div>
</body>

- Jeff
http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/JeffS

jhermiz

3564 Posts

Posted - 2007-05-15 : 11:52:16

Or the CSS way of doing things is to ensure the style margin-left:auto and margin-right:auto...

the below should really be defined in a css file..but im lazy:


<table width="95%"  border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">
...
<tr>
<td>..</td>
</tr>
...
</table>

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jsmith8858
Dr. Cross Join

7423 Posts

Posted - 2007-05-15 : 12:03:10

I'm pretty sure that my example used CSS ....

Anyway, the margin-left/right: auto is good to know, I was not aware that you could center like that ... very nice!

- Jeff
http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/JeffS

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