Formatting problem

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  rzamenhof · Member · May 6, 2013 at 7:02 am

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  One of my 7 posts, titled “How Dangerous is Radiation?, has a formatting error that I can’t fix whatever I try. The paragraph of text following the second table on the page starts about 4 lines too high. Could you fix this for me?

  Thanks!

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  kraftbj · Staff · May 9, 2013 at 2:36 am

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  Hi,

  Sorry for the delay in responding. The post looks good to me. Are you still having this issue or has it been resolved?

  Cheers!

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  rzamenhof · Member · May 9, 2013 at 2:43 am

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  Thanks so much for replying! I still have the problem, although I found a workaround. By trial and error I did 8 “returns” after the table, and as you see, that made the paragraph starting with “Summary” just clear the bottom of the table by about 1 line!

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  kraftbj · Staff · May 9, 2013 at 3:10 am

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  Ah, I can see that now.

  What’s happening is that the table’s width isn’t the full width of your content area, so the next paragraph is wrapping (“floating”) next to it.

  You can resolve this (without the eight paragraph breaks!) by using the Text Editor and modifying the HTML code that creates the table from:
  <table width="412" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left">
  to either
  <table width="100%" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left">
  or
  <table width="412" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">

  The first example widens the table to the full space, making the paragraphs after it drop below it. The second removes the left alignment, which would make the paragraphs drop below too.

  Cheers!

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  rzamenhof · Member · May 9, 2013 at 3:43 am

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  Jeez, why didn’t I see that! Thank you so much for your help!

  Robert

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  kraftbj · Staff · May 9, 2013 at 4:03 am

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  Happy to do it. Sometimes it’s all about a second set of eyes!