Cells increase in height - why?

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Andrew

Hi - I am a relative novice to frontpage, so maybe this is something that
is
obvious...


I have a webpage I have used as a template for all other pages. It has
buttons down the left (made with Xara Webthingy) a space in the middle to
put the text in and then a column next to it ont the right which is divided
into 3 cells. Each cell has a small image/photo file in it.


Trouble is, when I fill the middle box with my text, as I add in another
hard retrun/new line, the cell that it's next to also gets a return inserted
and so that images are all out of alignment..... aaaaggggghhhh!


Anyone know where I am going wrong??


Cheers


Andrew
 
I believe the problem you are having can be simplified if you consider this
example -

Put a 2 row by 2 column table on the page. Merge the two right hand cells
into a single column. Put an image into each left cell, and you will see
that they merge vertically seamlessly. Now begin to add content to the
merged cell on the right and you will see that at some point you will have
forced the two left cells to begin to split apart vertically. The more
content you add to the right, the further apart the two left cells will get.
See what I mean?

To solve the problem, instead of making your page sit in a single table,
have it in several nested tables. You should be able to put a two column
table on the page with a nested table in each column. Put your navigation
in the left nested table, and the
content in the right nested table. Now, changes to either of the inner
table's
structure will not affect either of the inner nested tables.
 
On the right, leave that as a single column then insert another table with 1 column and 3 rows.

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Andrew, I believe that your problem is arising from the "hard return". When
you press the return key, FrontPage inserts a paragraph tag <p>. Go into
your code and change the <p> to <br>, which means line break, and see if that
solves your problem.
 
Thanks for that, but is there no way of doing this the non html route? Is it
a bug??

Cheers

Andrew
 
It's not a bug, it's the way html works.
Use shift + enter instead of the hard return.
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| Thanks for that, but is there no way of doing this the non html route? Is
it
| a bug??
|
| Cheers
|
| Andrew
|
| | > Andrew, I believe that your problem is arising from the "hard return".
| > When
| > you press the return key, FrontPage inserts a paragraph tag <p>. Go
into
| > your code and change the <p> to <br>, which means line break, and see if
| > that
| > solves your problem.
| >
| > "Andrew" wrote:
| >
| >> Hi - I am a relative novice to frontpage, so maybe this is something
| >> that
| >> is
| >> obvious...
| >>
| >>
| >> I have a webpage I have used as a template for all other pages. It has
| >> buttons down the left (made with Xara Webthingy) a space in the middle
to
| >> put the text in and then a column next to it ont the right which is
| >> divided
| >> into 3 cells. Each cell has a small image/photo file in it.
| >>
| >>
| >> Trouble is, when I fill the middle box with my text, as I add in
another
| >> hard retrun/new line, the cell that it's next to also gets a return
| >> inserted
| >> and so that images are all out of alignment..... aaaaggggghhhh!
| >>
| >>
| >> Anyone know where I am going wrong??
| >>
| >>
| >> Cheers
| >>
| >>
| >> Andrew
| >>
| >>
| >>
| >>
|
|
 
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