Hi, > On this page, http://www.spectrumvt.org/index3.html I have a > large amount of blank space above the initial code. Why is this > happening? I really want to understand as much as fix it.
Firstly, you'll have a better understanding of what's going wrong if you indent your HTML :-) View the source on www.laughing-buddha.net/tmp/spectrum/ - that's your page, all I've done is added some indents to make it easier to look at. Immediately you can see that there are two <body> tags (this is technically wrong but probably won't break the page) and a spurious </td> before your </table> - you should take both of these out. You also need to remove all those <br> tags: you can't use them directly inside a <table> or <tr>, so they're being drawn outside the table - this is what's causing the large space at the top of the page. The next thing to look at is your table layout. In HTML every row of a table should have the same amount of cells, but your first row has four and the next three only have one each. You need to add more cells to the other rows to balance them out, but if you don't want four on each row then you can use the "colspan" attribute to stretch a cell across more than one column. There are some examples of this in the tables section of the HTML spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/tables.html#h-11.2.6.1 Once you've made these changes, run the page through the HTML validator at http://validator.w3.org/ and let us know how you get on. > Also I would like to take the tilted maroon text and put it under > the block sections but the layer and div commands don't seem to > let me do it. I know I'm doing something wrong but I'm not quite > sure what. If you're using a table-based layout, you may find it easier to work it into that somehow. I would suggest, however, that you learn best practice from day one and start with CSS layouts... Cheers Jon ____ • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set a personal password send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words: "set WDVLTALK pw=yourpassword" in the body of the email. To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
