Locking table size?

[Anon]

I have a table with another small table nested inside. When I input text from a file read the table cell grows and displays one long line of text. Using the pre tag to maintain the paragraph structure seems to be the culprit, but I need to dislay the text exactly as it was written. How can I lock the table width so as it doesn't 'grow' but wrap the text within the cell.

By the way this is also the cell with the nested table. Setting table width and td width does nothing to help. Any ideas?

Marcel.

[Anon]

<table width=nnn>

Andreas

[Anon]

Uuuuummmm....like I said, "table width does nothing to help". Here's the code

print("<table width=\"579\" border=\"1\" height=\"336\" align=\"center\"> \n");
print(" <tr> \n");
print(" <td height=\"368\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" width=\"274\"> \n");
print(" <table width=\"185\" border=\"1\" height=\"323\" align=\"center\"> \n");
print(" <tr align=\"center\" valign=\"middle\"> \n");
print(" <td height=\"316\"> <img src=\"$filename.$ext\" width=\"225\" height=\"318\"></td> \n");
print(" </tr> \n");
print(" </table> \n");
print(" </td> \n");
print(" <td height=\"368\" width=\"289\"> \n");
print(" <p align=\"center\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"4\"><b>$title</b></font></p> \n");
print(" <p align=\"center\"><b><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"3\"><pre>$text</pre></font></b></p> \n");
print(" <table width=\"22\" align=\"center\" border=\"1\" bordercolordark=\"#000000\"> \n");
print(" <tr align=\"right\" valign=\"bottom\"> \n");
print(" <td height=\"70\"><img src=\"./rrhouse1.gif\" width=\"52\" height=\"82\"></td> \n");
print(" </tr> \n");
print(" </table> \n");
print(" <div align=\"center\"><font size=\"3\"><b><font face=\"Arial\">$bus");

print("</font></b><font face=\"Arial\"><b>&copy;</b></font> <b><a href=\"mailto:$mail\"><font face=\"Arial\">$bus</font></a></b></font></div> \n");
print(" </td> \n");
print(" </tr> \n");
print(" <tr> \n");
print(" <td colspan=\"2\"><font face=Arial size=3><p><center> <br><br>Thank you. </center></b></font></td> \n");
print(" </table> \n");

I know that setting table width "should" lock the size but for some reason it ain't. Let me know if you have any other suggestions??

[Anon]

hmmmmmm...guess not??

[Anon]

Did you ever find out how to wrap the text around inside the table rather than stretching the table size?? I have this same problem right now.

[m_henry]

Hi Leena,

I can't remember off hand but if you ask me next week (after my exams 🙂) I'll let you know.

Take care. :0)