Hi all

I have a problem with one of my articles. I decided to use a table as I wanted the pics to sit nice in the text. There is a bit of text before the table - I put it there to try and resolve the huge gap that was coming up between the article intro and it's tbled body...but the huge gap is still there. Here is the html at the start of this article...please help me with how to remove the big gap - I don't understand why it is appearing. I don;t need the opening statement - I can dump it all again...but I don't understand what is causing the gap or how to get rid of it.

<DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style"><FONT color=#560081><FONT size=2>It is at such events you get to meet a great range of painters – from beginners to the very experienced, from those starting out in their own journey of discovery.<BR></FONT><BR></FONT></FONT>
<TABLE cellPadding=2 border=0>
<TBODY>
<TR>
<TD colSpan=2>
<P><FONT face="Bookman Old Style" color=#560081>Getting along to a painting convention is a recipe for a really great time. It is at such events you get to meet a great range of painters – from beginners to the very experienced, from those starting out in their own journey of discovery to those well known via publications and publicity. No matter where they come from, they are all great to rub shoulders with! The greatest advantage of attending these events is if you have planned them right and booked the right classes you will be learning something new on a regular basis.<BR></FONT></P></TD></TR>
<TR>

Please help!

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Isn't there anyone who can help with this one? Thanks

Remove the TBODY from the text.

Hi Catzqolf

You suggested

but that didn't work. It keeps coming back all by itself!

Any other ideas?

As your Personal Mentor I should answer this, methinks

Try this:

<div style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; color: #560081;">It is at such events you get to meet a great range of painters – from beginners to the very experienced, from those starting out in their own journey of discovery.<br /><table cellpadding="2" border="0"><tr><td colspan="2">Getting along to a painting convention is a recipe for a really great time. It is at such events you get to meet a great range of painters – from beginners to the very experienced, from those starting out in their own journey of discovery to those well known via publications and publicity. No matter where they come from, they are all great to rub shoulders with! The greatest advantage of attending these events is if you have planned them right and booked the right classes you will be learning something new on a regular basis.<br /></td></tr><tr>

(this is valid XHTML, and uses CSS styles).

Herko

What program are you using to edit the file? Just curious, as it seems to be making a mess of your html.

Try something like this:


Catzwolf was right, you don't need tbody. You also don't need all the < br > 's , they end up given you empty new lines.

Hope this helps.
Rowd

If you want your images to be located left or right in your text you can also use CSS styles: <img style="float: left;" src= etc.

Herko

try putting everything on one line (no linebreaks in teh code, as wf-sections tends to convert those to real linebreaks in the output).

Herko

Quote:

Hi Herko - I thought I was saved Nice to see you pop in and Rowdie thanks...but there is still a problem. BTW I am using Spaw in wf sections.

I have pasted exactly what you have both suggested and removed the new lines etc to end up with something like this:

<DIV style="COLOR: #560081; FONT-FAMILY: Bookman Old Style">It is at such events you get to meet a great range of painters – from beginners to the very experienced, from those starting out in their own journey of discovery.<TABLE cellPadding=2 border=0><TR><TD colSpan=2><FONT face="Bookman Old Style" color=#560081>Getting along to a painting convention is a recipe for a really great time. It is at such events you get to meet a great range of painters – from beginners

no breaks, remove the tbody. Click back to 'design' - it still looks good - then over to html again and guess what..
It is rendering as

<DIV style="COLOR: #560081; FONT-FAMILY: Bookman Old Style">It is at such events you get to meet a great range of painters – from beginners to the very experienced, from those starting out in their own journey of discovery.
<TABLE cellPadding=2 border=0>
<TBODY>
<TR>
<TD colSpan=2><FONT face="Bookman Old Style" color=#560081>Getting along to a painting convention is a recipe for a really great time. It is at such events

It's as if I have made no changes at all...and this little gremlin is driving me mad.

I am wondering however if the problem is in the subtitle. So I tried deleting that and it still made no difference....so...Herlo you said Quote:
Can you direct me to a place that lists the code for these styles?
Am I right in thinking if I kill off the table all together and go something like this instead for the images

<img style="float: right;" src="http://www.jensclassroom.com//uploads/ferns2.jpg">

How do I include the image sizes because they have been given sizing in the table...


<img style="float: right;" style="height=175: width=160;" src="http://www.jensclassroom.com//uploads/ferns2.jpg">

is the above correct???????

Sorry guys..I am up to increment version 17! and i am still not happy with how it looks...gotta get it right!

TIA