Table problem?

**le007** · 11-09-2006 07:00 PM

I'm "trying" to style a dreaded table so that the first td is about 20% of the table, the second td is 50% and the 3rd is 20%... for some reason its not working PLUS no obeying the normal % of the parent table?
Any suggestions? I tried "width=20%" as well as css way.
Thanks a mill
PS Plz don't tell me to validate my html - this is a test example!

http://homepage.eircom.net/~egoman/tested.html

<html>
<body>
<center>
<table width="90%" bgcolor="blue">

<tr>
<td width="100%">

<table style="float: left; width: 20%;">
<tr>
<td bgcolor="red" valign="top"> THIS IS THE LEFT COLUMN, THIS IS THE LEFT COLUMN ETC ETC ETC
</td>

</tr>
</table>

<table style="float: left; width: 50%;">
<tr>
<td bgcolor="red" valign="top"> middle</td>

</tr>
</table>

<table style="float: left;width:20%;">
<tr>
<td bgcolor="red" valign="top"> right</td>

</tr>
</table>

<tr>
<td>

</table>

**ray326** · 11-09-2006 09:52 PM

Looks like the inner ones should just be TDs, not full tables. Of course there probably shouldn't be any tables at all but saying that would be like saying to validate it.

**Nedals** · 11-10-2006 12:19 AM

Your very nasty table layout does in fact work and, if you put in the
'THIS IS THE LEFT COLUMN, THIS IS THE LEFT COLUMN ETC ETC ETC',
the widths will be approximately correct. On your linked sample page, however, there is no whitespace in the text, so it is pushing out the width of the first table.

**22Pixels** · 11-10-2006 09:06 AM

20% of the table, the second td is 50% and the 3rd is 20%.

Thats only 90%

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