Text not wrapping in a table..

[wdhead]

I am completely confused...
I have a table with two rows...one row with a picture.....the next row with a description.

I use PHP to place the pictures AND the description like this:

  <table border=0 align="center" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0><tr><td>
   <IMG SRC=<? print "$image"; ?>  BORDER="0"></td></tr>
   <tr><td class="caption"><? print "$desc"; ?></td></tr>
   </table>

In my sstyle sheet the caption class is this

.caption
{
	color: #000000;
	font-size: 10pt;
	font-family: Verdana;
	background-color: #cccccc;
	border: 1px solid #000000;
	border-width: 0px 1px 1px 1px;
}

the text goes far beyond the picture making it look all off!

Here is the link:

http://www.4gigs.com/~webhead/images...age=063002.jpg

How do I fix this problem?

[astericks]

Originally posted by wdhead
Here is the link:

http://www.4gigs.com/~webhead/images...age=063002.jpg

Link not working for me. Fix it plz.

[randem]

If you don't set a defined width on the table, it will grow dynamically to fit its contents.

This is further compounded by the fact that you don't even have <p> tags around your caption.

The quick and easy answer is to set a width attribute on the table, but I recommend adding the <p> tags as well.

[wdhead]

Sorry I have been changing things around


This is the new link

http://www.4gigs.com/~webhead/images...age=063002.jpg



Also, I cna't make it a fixed width table because all of the images are not the same size. I have never encountered text making the table wider before like this. Is using <p> tags inside a table really necessary?

[randem]

Originally posted by wdhead
Is using <p> tags inside a table really necessary?

Paragraph (<p>) tags encourage text wrapping.

Also, an image will force a fixed-width table to expand around it, but the text will not. If your images are of varying sizes, set the table's fixed width to the width of the smallest picture.

[wdhead]

Exactly.....an image will make it expand but that IS NOT what is happening.....the test is making it expand. Did you look at it?

http://www.4gigs.com/~webhead/images...age=063002.jpg

If I insert a <p> tag it would take on a different style class.....but I may do that......its just strange that the text is what is making the table expand.....never had that happen.