table issue

need content and beginning of table..

[skit_au]

Hi,

im designing a layout but i cant get the tables to position things how i want.. the problem is that in a table when content is entered it goes to the middle of it, i need it to be on the first line like a normal page without just filling the other space up with line breaks or whatever. is there a way of doing this?

thanks
skit

[Slade]

Are you looking for a simple:

valign="top"

(I can never remember, I think it goes in the TD)

[skit_au]

i love you =] thankyou very much, this should be more documented

[grahamstewart]

im designing a layout but i cant get the tables to position things how i want

Alternatively maybe its time to stop mis-using tables for layout and have a look at CSS instead?

[skit_au]

sometimes tables are necessary to achieve a certain look, alongside css

[g1smd]

>> this should be more documented <<

Did you try [w3.org...] or any of the thousands of HTML tutorials out there?

[grahamstewart]

sometimes tables are necessary to achieve a certain look, alongside css

Very, very rarely for designs that require CSS features that are not yet well supported in browsers (like max-height/width).

And even then they should just be used as a skeleton to hold the divs in place.

[BlobFisk]

One thing to note about using align= and valign= in <td>'s is that both of these attributes were deprecated with html4.01 and above.