I am really new to Dreamweaver and I am working on a personal website. I am using layout tables to create the pages and I want my layout tables to be centered. How do I get them to do that?
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Centering a layout table
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You need to put two tables ontop of each other/ sort of one in the other. You set one with pixels padding from each side and set the other as a percentage. Only watched a tutuorial on it quickly I'm a complete novice.
I was going to do this; but looking into it tables are old and obsolete now. It's all done by CSS now. Big subject; I'm currently trying to do that at the moment.
I would try to do it by CSS because information in tables is not recognised by search engines (google) so you'll have a very poor rating and hard to get traffic.
I was going to do this; but looking into it tables are old and obsolete now. It's all done by CSS now. Big subject; I'm currently trying to do that at the moment.
I would try to do it by CSS because information in tables is not recognised by search engines (google) so you'll have a very poor rating and hard to get traffic.
Try to avoid table based layouts if you can. That being said...
You'll need to set a width for your table (either using the table tag's width attribute or in the stylesheet), then in your CSS use
Note: Won't work with IE5
You'll need to set a width for your table (either using the table tag's width attribute or in the stylesheet), then in your CSS use
Code:
table {
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}Note: Won't work with IE5
Sorry So what is the correct way to layout?
I'm assuming something with a background but then how do you position that, I have a navbar I'm doing and struggled so much with it; but thanks to angelwatt, Jim, and Nuxx we managed to get my background image to display. That being said; it's 972px wide by 190px high. I want this to centre on the page, to the desired effect of what this original post was if you understand me
.Any help appreciated.