Sizing a nested <table> to fill the parent table

[peterinwa]

If I put a table inside another table, is there a way to size the inner table to fill the outer table?

[tedster]

If I understand you correctly, the answer is yes. Make sure the outer table is cellpadding=0 and cellspacing=0 -- otherwise you get a default of 1px for these attributes and there are little "slivers" that the inner table doesn't fill.

Then the inner table must be inside a <td> and you declare the inner table's width as width=100%

[peterinwa]

Thanks! Worked great.

Also learning about the defaults was real valuable as I assumed they were zero. Setting cellspacing=0 is "tightening" up a lot of my pages.