poor HTML/PHP code

**gwalters** · 12-24-2004

Take a look at http://gwalters.homelinux.com notice the thick black bars aroud the second table? I want *some* outline there but I have trouble keeping the first and second colum the same lenght. If you look at the code (done by hand) you see lots of

Code:

    <tr><td></td></tr>
    <tr><td></td></tr>

Any idea how to get rid of that and keep the colums the same length?

**Clueless** · 12-24-2004

I think you really want to remove all of the following empty coding

Code:

<tr><td></td></tr>
    <tr><td></td></tr>

Because you have nested tables I would put some in so you know where you are.

I've done what I think you should do blow

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//WC3//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" 
  "http&#58;//www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

<html>
<head>
<title>Gregs Linux Page</title>
<link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="/pics/favicon.ico">
</head>
  <body bgcolor="#E5E5E5">
<PRE>
     .-.
     /v\    L   I   N   U   X
    // \\  &gt;Phear the Penguin&lt;
   /&#40;   &#41;\
    ^^-^^

</PRE>
<table>
 <tr>
  <td>
<table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="10" border="0" align="center" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
 <tr>
  <td>
   <table border="0" width="90%" bgcolor="#000000" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1"> 
    <tr>
     <th align="left" bgcolor="#4682B4" valign="middle" width="50%">
     <h1><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5">Greg's Linux Page</font></h1>

     </th>
    </tr>
   <tr>
   <td bgcolor="#E5E5E5">
   <font size="1" face="Verdana" color="#000000">
    Welcome to Greg's Linux Page
   </font>
  </td>
 </tr>

  </table>
  </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td>
  <table border="0" width="90%" bgcolor="#E5E5E5" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1">
   <tr>
    <td>
    
    
    
     <table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" bgcolor="#E5E5E5">

      <tr>
       <td>Documents</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
       <td>Upload</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
       <td>Why Linux Owns</td>

      </tr>
      <tr>
       <td>Stupid Stuff</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
       <td>Squirrelmail</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>

       <td>Linuxforums</td>
      </tr>
     
     </table>
     
     
     
    </td>
    <td rowspan="50">

     <table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" bgcolor="#E5E5E5">
     <tr>
      <td bgcolor="#4682B4">It's been a while. Thu Dec 23 19&#58;51&#58;16 CST 
2004</td>
     </tr>
     <tr>
      <td>

O this should be a big post...Recently I've been very busy! 
Yay for finals, tring to learn german &#40;for my g/f's family&#41; and  work. 
Musnt forget the girlfriend. A big thumbs up to her! &#58;D Ive been looking 
a DSLinux alot. That would be sweet! I would love the war walking 
possibilities . I just installed IPTraf. That is a 
cool app. IPTraf is basicly a graphical netstat. Me being as nosy about 
my out-going traffic as I am I love it. Ive been looking at getting a 
faster connection and the prices astound me. $1123/month for a 3 Meg/s 
up and downfiber connection. Maybe I could just get a better dsl 
connection. If any one wants to help me pay for it and get some 
recognition email me at gwalters@gwalters.homelinux.com Thanks! I think 
my rant is almost over. Later All</p></td>
     </tr>
     <tr>

      <td bgcolor="#4682B4">Wow, I wanna start using >300 bit 
encryption...Wed Nov 24 
23&#58;13&#58;28 CST 2004</td>
     </tr>
     <tr>
      <td>

An article 
on Slashdot said that the CIA is going 
to 
start monitoring IRC chat rooms! They intend to silently listen and log 
all messages on IRC. They intend on locating hidden communities and 
communication patterns without the need of people. They justify this by 
saying they are searching for terrorists! </p>



What the hell? How long before 
all IM conversations are monitored? Maybe people I talk to on IRC will 
be spied on too. The government is using all kinds of money to get this 
going. Seems like one time I was looking at bots I saw one that 
graphicly showed relations in chat rooms. Anyone remember WASTE? The 
encrypted filesharing program.. Maybe those people were on to 
something. I wonder how long it is before all communication on 
the internet is encrypted? Lets all give the government a big 
'**** you' and tell them to get their packet sniffers off our 
networks.</p></td>
     </tr>
     <tr>
       <td bgcolor="#4682B4">OOoo More Stuff Wed Nov 24 00&#58;02&#58;40 CST 
2004</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
      <td>Got a live chat kinda thing going on. Right now its right here.</td>

      </tr>
      <tr><td> </td></tr>
      <tr>
       <td bgcolor="#4682B4">Yay! Sun Nov 21 18&#58;49&#58;48 CST 2004</td>  
      </tr>
      <tr>
       <td>Hey all, Im trying 
to make my site look a bit more professional so; bear with me as I get a 
style I like. After that, I'll probably make it a template and base all 
my pages off of it.</td>
      </tr>

     </table>
    </td>
   </tr>
  </table>
 </td>
 </tr>
 </tr>
<tr><td><center><iframe src="./blab/index.php"
width="1100" height="300" frameborder="0">No 
Frames</iframe></center></td></tr>
 <tr>

  <td><center>






<hr width="75%">
  <a href="http&#58;//linuxforums.org">
    [img]/pics/aol_ad.gif[/img]
  </a>





<a href="http&#58;//validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer">
[img]http&#58;//www.w3.org/Icons/valid-html401[/img]</a>
</p>

</center>
</td>
 </tr>
</table>
</td>
<td rowspan="50">[img]pics/vertlinux.gif[/img]
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

Edit by moderator (scientica): please use [ code ] and [ / code ] to embedd large pices of 'code'

**gwalters** · 12-25-2004

Thx for the help but that breaks my theme...Im tring to make it look like <my website>/upload hence the black bg

**Clueless** · 12-26-2004

Originally Posted by gwalters

Thx for the help but that breaks my theme...Im tring to make it look like <my website>/upload hence the black bg

I've had another look and sent you a PM.

I've added a CSS style ref at the top between the <head tags> and changed 2 <td tags> to <td class tags>.

I.ve also added <comment tags> so you can find your way around.

Hope this has helped.

**lordnothing** · 01-06-2005

Could one of you please post that solution so that other users may benefit from that knowledge?

**gwalters** · 01-06-2005

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">



<STYLE type="text/css">
td.border &#123;
border-top&#58; thin solid #000000;
border-right&#58; thin solid #000000;
border-bottom&#58; thin solid #000000;
border-left&#58; thin solid #000000;
&#125;

</STYLE>



</head>

<body bgcolor="#E5E5E5">


<PRE>
.-.
/v\ L I N U X
// \\ &gt;Phear the Penguin&lt;
/&#40; &#41;\
^^-^^

</PRE>

<table width="810" bgcolor="#000000" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1">
<tr>
<th width="810" height="50" align="left" valign="middle" bgcolor="#4682B4">
<h1><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5">Greg's Linux Page</font></h1>

</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="810" bgcolor="#E5E5E5">
<font size="1" face="Verdana" color="#000000">
Welcome to Greg's Linux Page
</font>
</td>
</tr>

</table>







<table width="810" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" bgcolor="#e5e5e5">
<tr>





<td class="border" width="150" align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="#E5E5E5">


Documents</p>


Upload</p>


Why Linux Owns</p>


Stupid Stuff</p>


Squirrelmail</p>


Linuxforums</p>

</td>






<td class="border" width="660" align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="#E5E5E5">


<table width="660" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1">
<tr>
<td width="660" valign="top" bgcolor="#4682B4">It's been a while. Thu Dec 23 19&#58;51&#58;16 CST
2004</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="660" valign="top" bgcolor="#E5E5E5">O this should be a big post...Recently I've been very busy!
Yay for finals, tring to learn german &#40;for my g/f's family&#41; and work.
Musnt forget the girlfriend. A big thumbs up to her! Very Happy Ive been looking
a DSLinux alot. That would be sweet! I would love the war walking
possibilities . I just installed IPTraf. That is a
cool app. IPTraf is basicly a graphical netstat. Me being as nosy about
my out-going traffic as I am I love it. Ive been looking at getting a
faster connection and the prices astound me. $1123/month for a 3 Meg/s
up and downfiber connection. Maybe I could just get a better dsl
connection. If any one wants to help me pay for it and get some
recognition email me at gwalters@gwalters.homelinux.com Thanks! I think
my rant is almost over. Later All</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="660" valign="top" bgcolor="#4682B4">Wow, I wanna start using >300 bit
encryption...Wed Nov 24
23&#58;13&#58;28 CST 2004</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="660" valign="top" bgcolor="#E5E5E5">

An article
on Slashdot said that the CIA
is going to start monitoring IRC chat rooms! They intend to silently
listen and log all messages on IRC. They intend on locating hidden
communities and communication patterns without the need of people.
They justify this by saying they are searching for terrorists! </p>


What the hell? How long before all IM conversations are monitored?
Maybe people I talk to on IRC will be spied on too. The government
is using all kinds of money to get this going. Seems like one time
I was looking at bots I saw one that graphicly showed relations
in chat rooms. Anyone remember WASTE? The encrypted filesharing
program.. Maybe those people were on to something. I wonder how
long it is before all communication on the internet is encrypted?
Lets all give the government a big 'f**k you' and tell them to get
their packet sniffers off our networks.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="660" valign="top" bgcolor="#4682B4">OOoo More Stuff Wed Nov 24 00&#58;02&#58;40
CST 2004</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="660" valign="top" bgcolor="#E5E5E5">Got a live chat kinda thing going
on. Right now its right here.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="660" valign="top" bgcolor="#4682B4">Yay! Sun Nov 21 18&#58;49&#58;48 CST 2004</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="660" valign="top" bgcolor="#E5E5E5">

Hey all, Im trying
to make my site look a bit more professional so; bear with me as
I get a style I like. After that, I'll probably make it a template
and base all my pages off of it.</p>
</td>
</tr>
</table></td>
</tr>
</table>




</body>
</html>

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