Please help me, formatting text is screwing up my tables....
Ok, this is really driving me nuts. Take a look at these two pages from my site.
http://werevieweverything.com/audio.html
http://werevieweverything.com/bmelon.html
Note how on the second page the vertical line that separates the review from the pictures has been pushed over to the left so that it appears that the grey area has spilled over into the white area.
I am using Frontpage to maintain my site using a dynamic web template so that I can edit the body text and image areas without disturbing other code. but for some reason now when I add formating to the text (bold and italic) is causes this anomoly. If I remove the formatting the page renders perfectly.
Feel free to examine the code I need to solve this, it is driving me BATTY!
UdderJuice posted this at 12:44 — 31st August 2004.
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A little more information: the table seems to get messed up when I have formatting that runs across a line break. Even if I apply the formatting up to the end of one line and then apply the formatting to the next line in two steps its till does it.
????
KarenArt posted this at 12:48 — 31st August 2004.
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I'm not exactly sure what the problem is because they are both looking the same for me in Safari.
Looking at your code though there is definately some problems on the second page where formatting tags are wrapped incorrectly.
I see quite a few of these type of things...
<b><i>Soup</b></i>'You want to make sure that you close each tag in order. What you should have is
<b><i>Soup</i></b>'The italics tag is wrapped inside the bold tag.
I'm not sure how frontpage and this template are creating your tags, but incorrect wrapping can cause all kinds of weird results.
Hope this helped!
gotta finish redesigning my sites so I can show them again.
The purpose of education is... to get more jokes!
UdderJuice posted this at 13:14 — 31st August 2004.
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Ahhh, I found it!
In my dynamic web template the code for my editable region was specifying a paragraph width that was too too wide for my table.
KarenArt posted this at 13:58 — 31st August 2004.
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Excellent!
Tracking down the bugs is always the hardest part.
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