Lining up help

guilmon_x · Joined: 11 Jun 2004 Posts: 1 Location: Mephis, Tennessee

http://free.hostultra.com/~digitalempire/

How do I line my categories and sub-categories up on each side of the page? (Like Digimon Stuff which is a category and Digidex which is a sub-category) Thank you in advance.

mjpliv · Joined: 11 May 2004 Posts: 406 Location: Nova Scotia

Do you have an example without the popups? I will go in and look at the HTML if you do!

eXcentra · Joined: 12 May 2004 Posts: 91

They all looked lined up to me... What do you mean by that?

You know, a splash page is meant to be shown first... (http://hostultra.com/~vashx/) Wink

mjpliv · Joined: 11 May 2004 Posts: 406 Location: Nova Scotia

Hi, I see the popups are not being generated by your page. They are being generated by your "free hosting service". Sorry but I have real issues with these types of popups. Especially those that try to get you to download something.

If you want the opposing side entries to line up you will have to set up your tables accordingly. Count how many opposing pairs you want to accomodate and add 1. (ie - 10 pairs + 1 = 11

<table>
<tr>
<td>left items - pair 1</td>
<td rowspan=11>center colume dialogue</td>
<td>right items - pair 1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>left items - pair 2</td>
<td>right items - pair 2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>left items - pair 3</td>
<td>right items - pair 3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>left items - pair 4</td>
<td>right items - pair 4</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>left items - pair 5</td>
<td>right items - pair 5</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>left items - pair 6</td>
<td>right items - pair 6</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>left items - pair 7</td>
<td>right items - pair 7</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>left items - pair 8</td>
<td>right items - pair 8</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>left items - pair 9</td>
<td>right items - pair 9</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>left items - pair 10</td>
<td>right items - pair 10</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>left hand misc. stuff</td>
<td>right hand misc stuff</td>
</tr>
</table>

This way the opposing left and right cells of the table will be sized the same by the larger of the two contents and the tops will always be aligned. Note that the eleventh row was used for the misc. information that did not have to line up with anything. These can be lumped together in a sincle table cell.

I noticed the you used colspan=2 twice in your tables but only created three table cells. This means the colspan=2 command has no effect.

Another suggestion would be to use the black background in the left and right columes and no background formating for the center colume. This way the page background will become seamless through the legth of the page.