tricky question with alignment

[noeffred]

hi folks, i've run into quite a tricky problem:
imagine this, i have 2 rows of a table. the top menu points (stuff like home, about us etc) are in the first row. every point belonging to one of those should be in the second row like this:
+----+----+----+
|main|main|main|
| |Sub | |
| |Sub | |
| |Sub | |
+----+----+----+

I think you get the picture. my problem is that "main" is not always the same size concerning text and so are the "Sub"s!!
So how do I get the tables from bouncing in width? I've thought of a colspan? any good?

[sarahp]

Could you place transparent gif's in the <td>'s with an absolute width stated?

what does your html look like?

[bastien]

colspan could work or you could assign width to the <TD > in either % or pixels

depends on what you got goning on

hth

bastien

[theslinky]

Hi,

One other method of adjusting width (in netscape 4 and older) is to use the rows="" property in the table tag.

Personally, I think the transparent image idea is the best because different browsers have different ways of handling the width property. I know in netscape 3 (at least in Unix and windows), the width is not always what you specify it in the width="" attribute especially if you have another cell with the same width but more content in it.

-sridhar