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outat60 · Joined: 21 Aug 2003 Posts: 37 Location: Rochester NY

Hi all

As I build my SBI site I am finding the need to use more and more HTML to design the site.

So far I'm doing pretty well teaching myself by trial and error. But currently I am having trouble with creating tables in SBI.

The table isn't presenting the way I expect it to. I want to see the table information displayed the same size text as the other content on the site. (Normal size like 10 on word) Embarassed

Instead the table text displays 2 or 3 sizes larger than I anticipated. I think I can use the font size tag but it seems like a lot of work adding that tag at all table entries.

If any one wants to look at the table click on my signature then Pink Floyd on the navbar then the statistics link.

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Debs · Joined: 16 Aug 2003 Posts: 4296 Location: NY

You would have to use the font tag to set your size. Tables can break the natural inheritance of font styles/sizes/colors which are previously set in the page.

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outat60 · Joined: 21 Aug 2003 Posts: 37 Location: Rochester NY

Thanks Debs for the reply. I understand what you are saying but is there a more specific reason that the text comes in larger. If not then I'll use the "smaller" or "font size" tag as you suggest.

If anyone can answer the following HTML questions I would really appreciate the help.

The following is what I want to see on my web pages but can't seen to find the solutions anywhere:

1. White space between words for alignment. But not tables.

2. Paragraphs framed within a rectangle shaped box (box to be thin black line or NO line) with background color inside box.

3. Words or phrases washed with color as you might use a highlighter in a book.

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Debs · Joined: 16 Aug 2003 Posts: 4296 Location: NY

1. do you mean justify text?

http://www.spiderpro.com/bu/bucssh001.html

2. background colored box with thin outline

here are great tutorials to add a colored box with css
http://www.bigbaer.com/css_tutorials/css.float.html.tutorial.htm

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/practicalcss/

http://www.designplace.org/tutorials.php?page=1&c_id=24

3. inline coloring the background of selected text

The background of only <span style="background-color: #FFFF66">selected text</span> has been set to yellow

You can combine the first two into one div by placing the required coding for each into one <div> tag.

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outat60 · Joined: 21 Aug 2003 Posts: 37 Location: Rochester NY

Thanks again Debs

As far as justify text, maybe, not sure of that definition.

Here is an example of what I don't want.

#1 Dark Side of the Moon
#10 The Wall
#139 Wish you were here

What I want to see is the text after the numbers line up under each other. This may be justification, I'm not sure. So to do that I need white space between #1 and "Dark", #10 and "The"

Previously I tried to show how that would look but it didn't format correctly when I previewed it.

Thanks.
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Debs · Joined: 16 Aug 2003 Posts: 4296 Location: NY

Ok, in that case, you would need to make a table with two columns, and one row for each row of info you want to show.

In the first column will be the numbers, and the text would be in the second column. Again, you would have to set the font size, etc. if you don't want the default to show. If you just want it a little smaller than the default, you can use the <small></small> tags instead of the font tags, that's up to you.

Alternately, if you want to do the border and background color of the table, you can set that in the <table> tag. If you use a <div> as outlined in my prior post, you would just have to place html spaces to align the text properly.

Hope this helps,
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mikeherman · Joined: 09 Jul 2004 Posts: 135 Location: California

Hi,

I've found that some HTML won't work in the building blocks of SBI.

Do you have a HTML editor like DreamWeaver? If so create what you want there first and test it, then copy and paste the code over to the building block in SBI.
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sophist · Joined: 21 Nov 2003 Posts: 569 Location: Kamloops, Canada

outat60

I think this is what you are looking for.

<table width="760" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5">
<tr>
<td width="10%" align="right">#1</td>
<td align="left">Dark Side of the Moon </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="right">#10</td>
<td align="left">The Wall </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="right">#139</td>
<td align="left">Wish you were here </td>
</tr>
</table>

I recommend getting an html editor to to help you learn. Using Dreamweaver you have the WYSIWYG plus you can see the associated code.

To me code alone is hard to work with and I rely on the visual aspect of the editor.

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Debs · Joined: 16 Aug 2003 Posts: 4296 Location: NY

There are some free html editors available, but I haven't really checked them out. You need to be careful with some editors as they can add junk code to your page. Since you are using the building blocks of SBI, you would want to keep it as simple as possible (one reason I recommend <div>'s where possible ... less coding).

If you just want to add two columns of text, but without a table, you can do it with spacing will add a blank space between words, you can use them multiple times in a row to get the number of spaces you want. This isn't a recommended approach, but would bypass using tables or a <div>, and the font coding that goes with it.

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outat60 · Joined: 21 Aug 2003 Posts: 37 Location: Rochester NY

Thanks for the help everyone. I was out of touch for a while.

Ron
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