Table size jumps?

[austinwagner]

I am using Dreamweaver and a friend of mine wrote a CSS for me. Whenever I place a table inside the main body of the website it jumps to 739 plxels and it wont get any smaller. I have tried everything! Please help!

[rocknbil]

Welcome aboard austinwagner, it sounds pretty obvious - the content of the table or the width specification on the table itself is forcing the width of the layout out. Try experimenting with a smaller data set, or check the width of the table.

[austinwagner]

Okay. So I have tried adjusting the width of the table. No luck. I have never had this happen before.

[rocknbil]

What about the data? Nowrap attribute?

<table>
<tr>
<td nowrap> some ridiculously long bit of data</td>
<td nowrap> another ridiculously long chunk of data</td>
<td nowrap> a third ridiculously long section of data</td>
</tr>
</table>

If the page code is not too long, swap out your links for example.com and let's have a look - paste it here. (See TOS)