kevin777

I'm not sure if this works, but can you just add a class to the TD and then use the regular css 'max-width=xx' i.e. td.classname{max-width:500px;} If this wont work can you add a div inside the TD and give the div a max width? like this: css: table tr div.stylename{max-width:500px;} html: <table border="1"> <tr> <div class="stylename"> <td>row 1, cell 1</td> <td>row 1, cell 2</td> </div> </tr> <tr> <div class="stylename"> <td>row 2, cell 1</td> <td>row 2, cell 2</td> </div> </tr> </table> Maybe another way could be to use php, as in set the width of the TD to a php variable which is connect to a max width setting ? Goodluck

Thanks for all your answers, It's solved the problem

Something I have always noticed but never worked out how to fix.. let me explain the situation If I have a centered 900px wide website and on page 'A' the page is vertically 400px high (don't have to scroll down to see rest of page). Now on page B the pages vertical height is 2000px height meaning you have to scroll down to see the bottom on the page - if i jump between page A and B the horizontal alignment changes because of the browser scroll bar appears on page B. My question is. How can i keep both page A and B exactly in the middle of the browser? Someone please solve this for me Thank you in advance.

Yes, that's why not many people use dreamweaver. switch to something like notepad++... I stopped using dreamweaver after it stared deleting my files..

Notepad ++ is by far better then anything you could pay for. Also I have heard good things about 'Crimson Editor'... which is free open source.

Seems like a strange design, perhaps think up another way to achieve this layout? Otherwise use floats,clear but i doubt it would be very stable with content in it.

Thats kinda sweet hey, ill look into that. Lately I have been searching the web and particularly newly developed gaming sites are using xml for displaying content which i thought was kinda cool. Actually I develop all my work in wordpress / joomla! hehe...

You need to add padding, add this: .bodytext{padding:0px 20px 0px 20px;}

I have just started to experiment more with XML + PHP combined and I'm going to make a simple website which uses xml to store page content information and php to controle site navigation/pages/and were content is placed. Has this been done or are their any examples of this on the net?

Things which have many lines of php (and html ) code: Forums, Shopping carts, online communities and CMS such as Joomla regenerative mechanisms to help reduce code would be ok, but not really needed I don't think.

sorry mate, but if I understand you correctly, google wins again http://books.google.com/ ...although you don't get to see ALL of the book... only some pages.

forget php on this, use javascript. Google will have the answer

Take a look at this, may have what your after: http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menus/final_drop.html

2em line hight seems to be the problem. What i would do is get the firefox web development tool and have a play... If you haven't already.