tables, top=0 left=0?

**Kint** · May 2, 2002 04:45

my tables are always a couple of pixels away from the top and left edge. How can i make the table attach to the edges like a layer can?

**Dan Morgan** · May 2, 2002 04:47

Code:

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">

You need to set your default page margins to 0 in the body tag.

**Mark T.** · May 2, 2002 04:48

In your <body> tag, you need to put this code:

Code:

<body topmargin="0" bottommargin="0" leftmargin="0" rightmargin="0" marginheight="0" marginbottom="0">

Hope that helps

.

**Kint** · May 2, 2002 06:44

thanks. when I put a table underneath another table thers a little space betwen the two of them. when i center the tables the space goes away but it returns when i align them to the left, where i want them to be. How can i erase the space?

**Maelstrom** · May 2, 2002 09:14

If you use css to position the table you can put them over the top of each other...

Code:

<table border="1" style="position:absolute;left:0;top:0">
<tr>
	<td>test cell 1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
	<td>test cell 2</td>
</tr>
</table>

<table border="1" style="position:absolute;left:0;top:0">
<tr>
	<td>test cell 3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
	<td>test cell 4</td>
</tr>
</table>

Thats just an example of positioning.

www.w3schools.com for more info on positioning within the css category

**AljapaCo** · May 2, 2002 19:55

Originally posted by Kint
thanks. when I put a table underneath another table thers a little space betwen the two of them. when i center the tables the space goes away but it returns when i align them to the left, where i want them to be. How can i erase the space?

Put both tables inside a bigger table that has cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"

**Snegolle** · May 3, 2002 02:56

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 rightmargin=0>-if you are designing for MSIE;
<body marginweight=0 marginheight=0>-if you are designing for NS and Opera
<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 rightmargin=0 marginweight=0 marginheight=0>-if you want fit it for all the browsers

**Kint** · May 4, 2002 05:04

ok, now for my last question regarding tables. If I have two tables (say tableA and tableB) inside another table and tableA is to the left of tableB. I want tableB to be fixed, not changing in width when i put text in it. As it is now, when i put text in TableB it grows in width and shrinks TableA (wich i also want fixed). How can i get pass this shrinking/growing thingy?
thanks in advance.

**Dan Morgan** · May 4, 2002 05:48

In this case you want to specify fixed width tables.

i.e. TABLE A has width attribute "x" in pixels, TABLE B has width "y" and TABLE C (your surrounding table) has width "x+y".

Then set the alignment of TABLES A and B accordingly...

Code:

<table width="800" border="1">
  <tr>
    <td>
      <table width="300" border="1" align="left">
        <tr>
          <td>content</td>
        </tr>
      </table>
      <table width="500" border="1" align="right">
        <tr>
          <td>content</td>
        </tr>
      </table>
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>

If you want the main table to shrink width the size of the browser, but still want the 2 inner tables to keep the same proportions, use % values so TABLE C "100%" and for example TABLE A has "25%" and TABLE B has "75%".

That make sense?

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