Starting HTML

[Colonel Sanders]

Today I read through a nice tutorial on HTMl and I think I understand most of what is said, including the tables.

Now I want to make my own webpage with a format like so:

Title here

Link | some random
Link | information here
Link |


I think I can do this with a table? I don't really want to use a frame as I think that will add a scroll bar next to my links? not exactly what I want.

I understand a bit about the tables like this little bit of code:

Experimenting...
Cells!	More Cells!
	???

But I'm not quite certain what I shold do. Should I make a table with only two side by side columns? Also, can there be tables within tables?

Any suggestions?

TIA, L J

[Force Flow]

Is this something like what you are looking for:

  

    

      
Title: This is my page
  


  

    

      

        

          

            
Links
        
        

          
pcmech
        
        

          
newegg
        
        

          
google
        
        

          
 
        
      
    
    

      

        

          

            
info
            
more info
            
even more info
            
some more info
            
yadda yadda
            
etc
        
      
    
  

And here again with invisible tables:

  

    

      
Title: This is my page
  


  

    

      

        

          

            
Links
        
        

          
pcmech
        
        

          
newegg
        
        

          
google
        
        

          

        
      
    
    

      

        

          

            
info
            
more info
            
even more info
            
some more info
            
yadda yadda
            
etc
        
      
    
  

That's one of the basic templates I use for some of my webpages. I can give you the code if you want it.

[Colonel Sanders]

I think I can steel the code from your post if you don't mind.

Thanks! L J

[Colonel Sanders]

Another question:

I want to use images for the buttons, I made some .jpgs with a border and text that I want to use as my buttons. I read how to make a picture into a link, but it didn't show how to avoid haveing a border around the image- and I certainly don't want a border around my image-links. What can I do to get rid of this border?

Also if I use the format above, and I put the images in the cells- will the cell size default to the size of the image or will I have to specify a size for the cell? How can I specifiy the size of the cell in say pixels?

And my final question about tables- how can I change the color of the border?

L J

[chris1977uk]

< table bordercolor="#FF0000"> will make the borders red for example, the bordecolor tag is the one you want.

to stop the border appearing, try < a href="targetpage.htm">< img src="images/imagename.jpg" border="0"> < /a>

[morriswindgate]

http://www.w3schools.com/

[kram 2.0]

Or http://www.htmlgoodies.com - the best HTML tutorial I've went through in years!! . The guy who made the site retired, but the site and tutorials are still up.

kram

[Shiva]

Yeah. If you want, you can change the color of the boxes in the table.

Like

TD BGCOLOR="996633"



I just started with html a few days ago, so forgive me if I'm a little *too* anxious to share what little knowledge I have.

[mairving]

Originally posted by Shiva Yeah. If you want, you can change the color of the boxes in the table. Like TD BGCOLOR="996633" I just started with html a few days ago, so forgive me if I'm a little *too* anxious to share what little knowledge I have.

It should be TD BGCOLOR="#996633". Leaving off the # can give unpredicatable and undesirable results.