FrontPage and Table Widths (2000)

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Hi!

Our Intranet is created using FrontPage 2000. We have a page that has several different tables in it that I have specified as 100% Width in the Table Properties. When I save the page/publish the intranet, FP must be “interpreting” the width of the table somehow because when I look at the table properties again, the Width is set to Pixels and then some number of pixels! It just keeps doing this, which wouldn’t be such a problem, except that all of the tables on the page end up being different sizes! Very annoying.
I have looked through the help, tried “faking it out” by setting the percentage to 99%, all sorts of things, so if anyone else has any ideas that I am overlooking, I would really appreciate it!

Thanks in advance!
magella

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Did you draw the table? Drawn tables tend to default to pixel measurements. But I’ve had the same problem occasionally as you’ve mentioned. Try fixing it in the HTML – weird, but it seems to keep it better then.

Cheers

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Usings Frontpages settings for your tables, especially tables in tables can be quite exciting. if you have designed a page, it is best to use absolute pixel settings for all of the tables and the cells. Start out using the wysiwig editor to get a general setup, but then set the properties by hand. Missing out just one cell in a table can give very strange results.

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Edited by bobdog on 26-Oct-01 19:14.

This is one of a number of differences between IE and Netscape.

I just had the same problem this week, and it drove me crazy. You won’t find it in Help or anywhere else I’m aware of — I had to dig it out by comparing the HTML between a page that worked right and rest that didn’t.

Look at the HTML at the top of the table for the line that reads:

table border=”0″ width=”100%” cellspacing=”0″ cellpadding=”5″ align=”left”

The align=”left” argument is the source of the problem. In table properties, change the Alignment dropdown back to “Default”. In my case, it displayed correctly in IE, but Netscape displayed a page that was absurdly wide. The problem went away when I returned to Default Alignment.

What causes it? Who cares. It’s just different. Hover Buttons are another “difference”.

Hope this helps.

Later: I may have misread your question. I guess it gets down to comparing a well-behaved page with a rogue page.

Did you import your copy from a word processor or type it in? Another issue I had recently was pasting in some copy from a Word Perfect document and ended up with a whole bunch of wierd little tags and strange behavior. Best suggestion I can make if this is the case is to strip out all the formatting and re-mark it.

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With reference to placing WordPerfect text in FP – both Word and WP have this problem of adding extraneous tags. With either, it is best to Edit/Paste /Special and then use “Normal Paragraphs with line breaks” – this removes the formatting. Then you may edit the text properties.

The same is true of copying text from the body of an email message.

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Thanks. To be honest, I can’t recall ever using Paste Special, going all the way back to Windows 3.1. Useful tip I’ll tinker with tonight.

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