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[joelwenzel]

I have a table and I want to write two cells inside of one.

Is it bad coding for me to write
<tr>
<td>
<tr>
<td>cell1</td><td>cell2</td>
</tr><tr>
<td>cell1</td><td>cell2</td>
</tr>
</td>
</tr>

My table is being coded in a mildly complicated sequence which I don't want to get into but this will not give me the desired result
<tr>
<td>cell1</td><td>cell2</td>
</tr><tr>
<td>cell1</td><td>cell2</td>
</tr>

 

[FesterSXS]

If you want to nest tables like this then try this:

<table>
<tr>
  <td>
  <table cols=2>
  <tr>
    <td>cell1</td>
    <td>cell2</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>cell1</td>
    <td>cell2</td>
  </tr>
  </table>
  </td>
</tr>
</table>

Tony

http://www.phoenix-paints.co.uk/portfolio

 

[onpnt]

I'm alittle confused. your first table example does the same as this
<tr>

<td>cell1</td><td>cell2</td>
</tr><tr>
<td>cell1</td><td>cell2</td>

</tr>
the only possible diff I can think of is the outline if you use a border
possible the fact you're posting a section of what you're thinking about and I can't see exactly what you mean. Honestly if you get the table formatted the way you want it then there's nothing wrong with it (or it's not bad coding) You cannot mandate productivity, you must provide the tools to let people become their best.
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[joelwenzel]

yeah...I know I can do it that way...but I want to have the colums in the nested tables to all have the same width without hardcoding a width in it.

With nested tables it will look like this

| dfa cell1 | cell2 |
|cell1|cell2 |

In internet Explorer
<td>
<tr>
<td>cell1</td><td>cell2</td>
</tr><tr>
<td>cell1</td><td>cell2</td>
</tr>
</td>

looks like
| dfa cell1 | cell2 |
|cell1 | cell2 |