How to make text fit exactly in a table cell.. different results with different editors

zwylle

Hi all,

to avoid a nervous breakdown I finally decided to seek help :D

I have a table defined with plain color background and in some cells I
show pictures to frame my site.
The problem I have occurs for one special cell.
The background of this cell is as you can see an image. A text should
be displayed on this image.
I don't want the text to be bigger than the picture.

When I save the below code in editor 1 (Coffeecup) and open it in
editor 2 (OpenOffice) the code gets changed and the site looks all
weird because the font-size changes too.

Is there a 'correct' way to define this that every editor I open the
file with would act the same?

How can I make my text fit exactly in a table cell? Is there a way
that I could make it work for both editors?
I'm new to HTML so an example would be really great!

Why does this: ---------------------->
.......
<TR>
<TD WIDTH=15 HEIGHT=69 STYLE="backgrou nd:
url(Bilder/borderleft2.gif ) repeat scroll"></TD>
<TD VALIGN=BOTTOM WIDTH=163 STYLE="backgrou nd: url(Bilder/anno.gif)
no-repeat scroll">
<FON T FACE="Comic Sans MS, cursive">
Blabla 
<FON T FACE="Comic Sans MS, cursive">
Blabla th 2003 
<FON T
FACE="Comic Sans MS, cursive">
Blabla 

</TD>
<TD WIDTH=19 STYLE="backgrou nd: url(Bilder/borderright.gif ) repeat
scroll"></TD>
</TR>
......
......get changed into this ---------------------------->
......

<TR>
<TD WIDTH=15 HEIGHT=69 STYLE="backgrou nd:
url(Bilder/borderleft2.gif ) repeat scroll"></TD>
<TD WIDTH=163 VALIGN=BOTTOM STYLE="backgrou nd: url(Bilder/anno.gif)
no-repeat top left scroll">

Blabla 


Blabla th 2003


Blabla 

</TD>
<TD WIDTH=19 STYLE="backgrou nd: url(Bilder/borderright.gif ) repeat
scroll"></TD>
</TR>

.......

Thanks
zw

Jul 20 '05 #1

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Peter Foti

"zwylle" <zw****@gmx.net > wrote in message
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When I save the below code in editor 1 (Coffeecup) and open it in
editor 2 (OpenOffice) the code gets changed and the site looks all
weird because the font-size changes too.

Any editor that changes your code for you should be avoided. My advice...
if OpenOffice is changing your code, then don't use it.

Regards,
Peter Foti

Jul 20 '05 #2

Markus Ernst

"Peter Foti" <pe****@systoli cnetworks.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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Any editor that changes your code for you should be avoided. My advice...
if OpenOffice is changing your code, then don't use it.

I agree with that. And I also recommend you to use an editor that makes a
difference between HTML formatting () and CSS (). Don't use the tag, and if possible use CSS
with classes instead of the style attribute.

I also recommend you to use an editor that marks up syntax errors. You have
lots of them, for example

<FON T FACE="Comic Sans MS, cursive">
Blabla 

(one but 2 s) or

STYLE="margin-top: 3px; FONT-SIZE=12px"

(must be font-size:12px)

I personally work with Dreamweaver as this editor is very convenient for
both layout-view editing and hand coding.

Regarding your original question: I don't think this is possible, but not
because of editor's properties but because of the HTML standards that do not
provide that possibility. If you want the text to match exactly the size of
a table cell you will have to make a gif out of it.

--
Markus

Jul 20 '05 #3

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