Nested Tables

liunx · Jan 9, 2008

I desperately need help with a page that has a few nested tables in it. 
Trouble is, I get lost in all the code, and frontpage and firstpage both tell me that everythings right, and when i scan it, I seem to think everything was right, but the writing down the bottom was setting up BELOW the table, instead of IN it. 
 
This is what it looks like before uploading, and is exactly what I want. 
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.antipopstars.net/__df-overflow/iwant.jpg">http://www.antipopstars.net/__df-overflow/iwant.jpg</a> 
 
But this (<a class="postlink" href="http://www.antipopstars.net/__df-overflow/heist/index.shtml">http://www.antipopstars.net/__df-overfl ... ndex.shtml</a>) is what I end up with.

It shows up right before I upload, then doesn't display right when it's on the net.Okay, I opened your page in dreamweaver and it highlighted quite a few errors in the code. 
 
Firstly you have an unclosed center tag: 
 
<BODY BGCOLOR="#231F34" LINK="#49426C" VLINK="#49426C" ALINK="#49426C" 
BACKGROUND="images/bg.gif"> 
 
<DIV ALIGN="center"> 
<CENTER> 
 
Then you have an unclosed or overlapping DIV tag: 
 
 
<TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="0" <DIV ALIGN="right"> 
 
 
Then an unclosed or overlapping font tag: 
 
TARGET="forums">Forums</A></TD> 
</TR> 
<TR> 
<TD> Last posts on the forums: 
 
 
Another overlapping one: 
 
 dv8troy</a> Guests: 0 - Members: 1<hr></td></tr></table> 
 
 
And then some extra unneeded table tags: 
 
</BLOCKQUOTE> 
</TD></TR> 
<TR> 
<TD VALIGN="top"># 
110 </TD> 
<TD VALIGN="top"><CENTER> 
?<A HREF=http://www.htmlforums.com/archive/index.php/"http://darkenedfairytales.com/vesta/" 
TARGET="vesta productions">vesta productions</A> 2002. 
</CENTER></TD> 
</TR> 
</TABLE> 
</CENTER> 
</DIV> 
</BODY> 
</HTML> 
 
 
I don't know if that will sort out your problems.Okay, I found a few minutes to have a closer look at this. I'm not entirely sure why all of these these things have been flagged up. Don't go deleting all the highlighted tags as this won't solve the problem!! It's likely that you've got some of the tags in the wrong order and not properly nested. If I get time later I'll go through it properly and see if I can sort it out. No promises though!

It looks to me like you're missing this: 
 
<table> 
<tr> 
<td> 
 
Immediately above this: 
<H1>News - Updates</H1> 
 
I hope this helps...

That would certainly explain some of it!

Thanks, I've fixed it.

There's just two things that I find strange: 
1) It displayed fine when it wasn't uploaded in IE, but not after 
and 
2) frontpage couldn't find an error (not that that suprises me

) 
 
(edit to say: 
 
I worked out it was actually a problem with the ssi templates.... that's why it was fine when not on the internet, but once the ssi templetes were implemented, the tables screwed up

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Nested Tables

liunx

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