Astrocloud

I was trying to insert the latest Gallup Poll results http://www.gallup.com/poll/releases/pr040115.asp in a forum and I just couldn't do it without tons of white space showing up as a result

the html looks something like this

<B>SUMMARY TABLE: PARTY HANDLING OF ISSUES OR PROBLEMS
</B><TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=1 CELLPADDING=2 WIDTH=90% align=center><TR><TD WIDTH="51%" VALIGN="BOTTOM" HEIGHT=24><B><I>2004 Jan 9-11<BR>
(sorted by "advantage")</B></I></TD><TD WIDTH="17%" VALIGN="BOTTOM" HEIGHT=24><B><P ALIGN="CENTER">Republican Party</B></TD>
<TD WIDTH="16%" VALIGN="BOTTOM" HEIGHT=24>
<B><P ALIGN="CENTER">Democratic Party</B></TD><TD WIDTH="16%" VALIGN="BOTTOM" HEIGHT=24><B><P ALIGN="CENTER">Republican<BR>Advantage/ Disadvantage</B></TD></TR><TR><TD WIDTH="51%" VALIGN="TOP" HEIGHT=17><P></P></TD><TD WIDTH="17%" VALIGN="TOP" HEIGHT=17><P ALIGN="CENTER">%</TD><TD WIDTH="16%" VALIGN="TOP" HEIGHT=17><P ALIGN="CENTER">%</TD><TD WIDTH="16%" VALIGN="TOP" HEIGHT=17><P ALIGN="CENTER">%</TD>
</TR><TR><TD WIDTH="51%" VALIGN="BOTTOM" HEIGHT=17>
<P>Terrorism</TD><TD WIDTH="17%" VALIGN="BOTTOM" HEIGHT=17><P ALIGN="CENTER">60</TD><TD WIDTH="16%" VALIGN="BOTTOM" HEIGHT=17><P ALIGN="CENTER">30</TD><TD WIDTH="16%" VALIGN="BOTTOM" HEIGHT=17><P ALIGN="CENTER">+30</TD>
</TR><TR><TD WIDTH="51%" VALIGN="BOTTOM" HEIGHT=17>
<P>The situation in Iraq</TD><TD WIDTH="17%" VALIGN="BOTTOM" HEIGHT=17><P ALIGN="CENTER">53</TD><TD WIDTH="16%" VALIGN="BOTTOM" HEIGHT=17><P ALIGN="CENTER">37</TD><TD WIDTH="16%" VALIGN="BOTTOM" HEIGHT=17><P ALIGN="CENTER">+16</TD>
</TR><TR><TD WIDTH="51%" VALIGN="BOTTOM" HEIGHT=17>
<P>Foreign affairs</TD><TD WIDTH="17%" VALIGN="BOTTOM" HEIGHT=17><P ALIGN="CENTER">51</TD><TD WIDTH="16%" VALIGN="BOTTOM" HEIGHT=17><P ALIGN="CENTER">40</TD>
<TD WIDTH="16%" VALIGN="BOTTOM" HEIGHT=17><P ALIGN="CENTER">+11</TD></TR><TR><TD WIDTH="51%" VALIGN="BOTTOM" HEIGHT=17>
<P>Gun policy</TD>
<TD WIDTH="17%" VALIGN="BOTTOM" HEIGHT=17><P ALIGN="CENTER">48</TD><TD WIDTH="16%" VALIGN="BOTTOM" HEIGHT=17>
<P ALIGN="CENTER">39</TD>
<TD WIDTH="16%" VALIGN="BOTTOM" HEIGHT=17><P ALIGN="CENTER">+9</TD>
</TR>
<TR><TD WIDTH="51%" VALIGN="BOTTOM" HEIGHT=17><P>The economy</TD>
<TD WIDTH="17%" VALIGN="BOTTOM" HEIGHT=17><P ALIGN="CENTER">44</TD><TD WIDTH="16%" VALIGN="BOTTOM" HEIGHT=17>
<P ALIGN="CENTER">48</TD><TD WIDTH="16%" VALIGN="BOTTOM" HEIGHT=17>
<P ALIGN="CENTER">-4</TD>
</TR>
<TR><TD WIDTH="51%" VALIGN="BOTTOM" HEIGHT=17><P>Taxes</TD><TD WIDTH="17%" VALIGN="BOTTOM" HEIGHT=17>
<P ALIGN="CENTER">44</TD>
<TD WIDTH="16%" VALIGN="BOTTOM" HEIGHT=17>
<P ALIGN="CENTER">48</TD>
<TD WIDTH="16%" VALIGN="BOTTOM" HEIGHT=17><P ALIGN="CENTER">-4</TD></TR>
<TR><TD WIDTH="51%" VALIGN="BOTTOM" HEIGHT=17>
<P>Education</TD>
<TD WIDTH="17%" VALIGN="BOTTOM" HEIGHT=17>
<P ALIGN="CENTER">41</TD>
<TD WIDTH="16%" VALIGN="BOTTOM" HEIGHT=17><P ALIGN="CENTER">50</TD><TD WIDTH="16%" VALIGN="BOTTOM" HEIGHT=17>
<P ALIGN="CENTER">-9</TD>
</TR>
<TR><TD WIDTH="51%" VALIGN="BOTTOM" HEIGHT=17><P>The federal budget deficit</TD><TD WIDTH="17%" VALIGN="BOTTOM" HEIGHT=17>
<P ALIGN="CENTER">39</TD><TD WIDTH="16%" VALIGN="BOTTOM" HEIGHT=17>
<P ALIGN="CENTER">49</TD>
<TD WIDTH="16%" VALIGN="BOTTOM" HEIGHT=17>
<P ALIGN="CENTER">-10</TD></TR>
<TR><TD WIDTH="51%" VALIGN="BOTTOM" HEIGHT=17><P>Healthcare policy</TD>
<TD WIDTH="17%" VALIGN="BOTTOM" HEIGHT=17><P ALIGN="CENTER">34</TD>
<TD WIDTH="16%" VALIGN="BOTTOM" HEIGHT=17>
<P ALIGN="CENTER">55</TD>
<TD WIDTH="16%" VALIGN="BOTTOM" HEIGHT=17>
<P ALIGN="CENTER">-21</TD>
</TR>
<TR><TD WIDTH="51%" VALIGN="BOTTOM" HEIGHT=17><P>The environment </TD><TD WIDTH="17%" VALIGN="BOTTOM" HEIGHT=17><P ALIGN="CENTER">35</TD>
<TD WIDTH="16%" VALIGN="BOTTOM" HEIGHT=17>
<P ALIGN="CENTER">57</TD>
<TD WIDTH="16%" VALIGN="BOTTOM" HEIGHT=17><P ALIGN="CENTER">-22</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>

rockogre

Go here, Homesite 1.2

It's a free html editor and one of the best. I have used Homesite for years. I started with this one and moved on the the latest paid version.

Pay attention to your width settings

table width="" cellspacing="" cellpadding=""

And your table data width settings

td width=""

These can be in pixels or percent of table width.

You should get something like this. I left out the greater than and lesser than symbols so you could see the code.

table width="95%" align="center" cellspacing="10"
tr
td align="center"2004 Jan 9-11 br (sorted by "advantage")/td
td align="center"Republican Party/td
td align="center"Democratic Party/td
td align="center"Republican br Advantage/ Disadvantage/td
/tr
tr
td align="center"/td
td align="center"%/td
td align="center"%/td
td align="center"%/td
/tr
tr
td align="center"Terrorism
/td
td align="center"60/td
td align="center"30/td
td align="center"+30/td
/tr
tr
td align="center"The situation in Iraq
/td
td align="center"53/td
td align="center"37/td
<td align="center"+16/td
/tr
/table

And Halx, how did I manage to get the posting window so screwed up?

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Halx

i tried to fix it up for you.. but it didn't quite work...

you could just use the code tag and equally space everything

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numist

most forums that Ive had experience with like to choke on pure html table code, usually adding horrific whitespaces and sending things off the screen.

Usually, its a good idea to:

Type it in by hand if the list is small
OR
Link to the table on the internet, or put it in an iframe.

Hope that helps.

Astrocloud

Yeah I messed with it a little bit but pretty much just gave up for now. Actually I didn't really give up but rather get side tracked by the "Teen Titans" game I listed in the games forum.

Thanks for the help everyone... I suspect it may be hopless and beyond the design specs for this software.