HTML Table Within Table Edit / Insert

kothea · Member · Apr 30, 2009 at 12:18 pm
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Hi I’m creating a table within a table (I think) at

Cushions

this works fine in word and in frontpage 2003. However as yo can see from the post the smaller image at the bottom right hand side of the master table drops down. I’ve tried changing the width but it seems to make no difference.

I’m not an html expert but do understand the very basics

1. does wp support table within table
2. Is there a better generic editor that I can use for everything for this
3. should i approach this a better way ie insert the whole table as an image (but how do i do that other than screen dumping and cropping the screen dump in paint shop pro

<body>
<table id=”table1″ class=”MsoTableGrid” style=”border-collapse:collapse;margin-left:-2.25pt;margin-right:-2.25pt;” border=”0″ cellspacing=”0″ cellpadding=”0″ align=”left”>
<tbody>
<tr style=”height:127.6pt;”>
<td style=”width:10cm;height:127.6pt;padding:0;” rowspan=”3″ width=”378″ valign=”top”>
<!–[if gte vml 1]>–>
<!–[if !vml]–><img src=”http://www.kothea.com/images/24 verA – Cushions Main.jpg” border=”0″ alt=”” width=”378″ height=”378″ /><!–[endif]–></td>
<td style=”width:17px;height:127.6pt;padding:0″ valign=”top”>
 
</td>
<td style=”width:191px;height:127.6pt;padding:0″ valign=”top”>
<!–[if gte vml 1]>–>
<!–[if !vml]–><img src=”http://www.kothea.com/images/25 verA – Cushions Top.jpg” border=”0″ alt=”” width=”170″ height=”170″ /><!–[endif]–></td>
</tr>
<tr style=”height:1cm;”>
<td style=”width:17px;height:21px;padding:0″ valign=”top”>
 
</td>
<td style=”width:191px;height:21px;padding:0″ valign=”top”>
 
</td>
</tr>
<tr style=”height:127.6pt;”>
<td style=”width:17px;height:187px;padding:0″ valign=”top”>
 
</td>
<td style=”width:191px;height:187px;padding:0″ valign=”bottom”>
<!–[if gte vml 1]>–>
<!–[if !vml]–><img src=”http://www.kothea.com/images/25 verA – Cushions Bottom proxy.jpg” border=”0″ alt=”” width=”170″ height=”170″ /><!–[endif]–></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
 
 


















 


 
 
 
 
 
 
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Size:
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Size:
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panaghiotisadam · Member · Apr 30, 2009 at 12:41 pm
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NEVER paste directly from Word:

Why not to use Word

If you want to prepare your posts outside the WP editor, use Windows Live Writer.

All that code is a hideous piece of junk; your table need be nothing more than that:
```
<table border="0">
<tr><td rowspan="2" valign="top">
LARGE_IMAGE_CODE
</td><td valign="top">
SMALL_IMAGE1_CODE
</td></tr>
<tr><td valign="bottom">
SMALL_IMAGE2_CODE
</td></tr>
</table>
```
(Following text normally, outside the table code; format it using the buttons of the post editor.)
1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Apr 30, 2009 at 12:49 pm
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That code is a mess! It’s really a bad idea to paste code from Word! It will cause no end of problems.
http://download.live.com/writer
There are offline editors. Live Writer for example.
http://download.live.com/writer
Below is a simple table to display your pictures:
```
<table border="0" width="450" align="center">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;" rowspan="3">IMAGE_!</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">IMAGE_2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">IMAGE_3</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
```
You can adjust the number for width of your table.

Then just use the visual editor to write your text.
1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Apr 30, 2009 at 12:50 pm
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Oops, the first link should be:

Why not to use Word
1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Apr 30, 2009 at 1:03 pm
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@panos,
As always, your code is more elegant…
kothea · Member · Apr 30, 2009 at 5:03 pm
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Thanks guys. A solution in sight!!

Your code is lovely, I kinda even understand it…but I ain’t going there!

I’m not a word fan per se. The thing is I have a lot of archived stuff that I want to get onto my blog and that is in word/frontpage 2003/pdf. So I can’t easily change that.

If I paste it from my source into Live Write will it clear up the junk that frontpage added? And then cut and paste from there (or jiggle a bit and cut and paste)
carocat · Member · Apr 30, 2009 at 5:32 pm
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You should have a look at some other offline editors, too: http://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2007/10/26/offline-blog-editors-reviews/

You can post directly to your blog with those which means there’s no copying and pasting necessary and the could *should* be cleaner, yes.
fabulousatfifty · Member · Apr 30, 2009 at 5:40 pm
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I have been messing about with tables for the past couple of days lol… Thanks for those codes panaghiotisadam and 1tess…

Carole xxx
kothea · Member · Apr 30, 2009 at 6:02 pm
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And then you look at your page through opera, ie, firefox and find they are all different to what the Wp editor shows…..very different. lol.

I think it will have to be a simple, single image from paint shop and some text below. eesh it’s 2009 isnt it?
1tess · Moderator Emeritus · May 1, 2009 at 12:19 am
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kothea
Yes, of course: what you see online is very different from a graphics/layout/print-related version of what you want to make—in print, you have total control, but computer stuff (a technical term that????? ha :-)…)/is dynamic and viewed through different lenses (browsers). It took me a long time to understand that difference.
And yes. The wordpress visual editor has its faults…
Yes, tables will make the layout look the way you want, but there are problems with that…(a bit longer loading time)
And yes, simple is good.
best wishes to you.
1tess · Moderator Emeritus · May 1, 2009 at 12:34 am
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fabulousatfifty,
Exactly what do you want to accomplish?
My code works, but as I said, panos’s code is more elegant. I’m sort of a beginner and he is brilliant! I was thinking sideways on the table.

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