Dreamweaver - Trouble with Table Widths

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Trouble with Table Widths

htown

2004-08-10, 11:18 pm

I finally get my first usable ASP page with a table and now I am at a loss
as to get the table colums to the correct size.

My delima is that when developing an .asp page, the dynamic field displayes as
a place holder in a table cell. This place holder (example {rsLakeList.TimeLog}
) is wider than the field actually nedds to be. This place holder may represent
a variable that will never exceed 10 characters but the place holder itself is
18 characters wide so I can not make the column any narrower. You can see what
I am talking about http://www.boathousetimes.com/wholake/lakelist.asp
Note how wide the "Boathouse" field is when it only needs to be as wide as the
column header.

So how can I get the coulums to shrink down to the appropriate size?
Hope this makes sence.

Thanks
Houston

Murray *TMM*

2004-08-10, 11:18 pm

Try EDIT | Preferences > Invisible Elements > Show dynamic text as: {} to
shrink those puppies down.

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"htown" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> I finally get my first usable ASP page with a table and now I am at a loss
> as to get the table colums to the correct size.
>
> My delima is that when developing an .asp page, the dynamic field
displayes as
> a place holder in a table cell. This place holder (example
{rsLakeList.TimeLog}
> ) is wider than the field actually nedds to be. This place holder may
represent
> a variable that will never exceed 10 characters but the place holder
itself is
> 18 characters wide so I can not make the column any narrower. You can see
what
> I am talking about http://www.boathousetimes.com/wholake/lakelist.asp
> Note how wide the "Boathouse" field is when it only needs to be as wide
as the
> column header.
>
> So how can I get the coulums to shrink down to the appropriate size?
> Hope this makes sence.
>
> Thanks
> Houston
>

Murray *TMM*

2004-08-13, 11:16 pm

You're welcome!

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"htown" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Thank you so much for that small but extreamly helpful information.
>
> Houston