your current code, if you have posted it correctly, creates malformed html: since you have the opening <tr> tag outside of your query output but the closing </tr> inside of it, all your table rows after the first one are missing the opening <tr> tag (check the generated source of the page you posted a link to if you do not believe me).
for a change, try this for a CFOUTPUT with GROUP attribute solution: <CFquery name="qEmpAssets" datasource="bs3578" > ... </CFquery> <table> <tr> <th width="20%"> Name </th> <th width="30%"> Asset </th> <th width="30%"> Category </th> </tr> <CFoutput query="qEmpAssets" group="eName"> <cfset lcount = 1> <tr> <td> #qEmpAssets.eName# </td> <cfoutput> <cfif lcount gt 1></tr><tr><td> </td></cfif> <td> #aTitle# </td> <td> #cCategory# </td> <cfset lcount = lcount+1> </cfoutput> </tr> </CFoutput> </table> plus: your total cell widths only amount to 80% of table width... Azadi Saryev Sabai-dee.com http://www.sabai-dee.com/ Bob Sharp wrote: > Thanks guys, some useful tips that led me to this ... > http://ttcfm.open.ac.uk/~bs3578/test1/abEmpAssets.cfm > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:320687 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4