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vertical spacing of text links in a cell

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xandre

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May 21, 2001
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It's driving me nuts. I can't get these links to center vertically in a cell. Look ok in preview, but IE shoves them to the bottom of the cell. I tried setting vertical alignment to "middle" in properties, but doesn't matter.

I'm gonna kill it! I swear!

xandre
 
Do you have a test site up? Or could you post a code snippet?
 
Sorry, no working url yet, but here's the table.
Thanks :)

Xandre


<tr bgcolor=&quot;#000066&quot;>
<td colspan=&quot;3&quot;>
<div align=&quot;center&quot;><a href=&quot; face=&quot;Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;1&quot; color=&quot;#FFFFFF&quot;>Band/Orchestra</font></a>
<font face=&quot;Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;1&quot; color=&quot;#FFFFFF&quot;>|
<a href=&quot; face=&quot;Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;1&quot; color=&quot;#FFFFFF&quot;>Baseball
</font></a> | <a href=&quot; face=&quot;Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;1&quot; color=&quot;#FFFFFF&quot;>Basketball</font></a>
| <a href=&quot; face=&quot;Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;1&quot; color=&quot;#FFFFFF&quot;>Cheer</font></a>
| <a href=&quot; face=&quot;Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;1&quot; color=&quot;#FFFFFF&quot;>Cheer</font></a>
| <a href=&quot; face=&quot;Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;1&quot; color=&quot;#FFFFFF&quot;>Choir</font></a>
| <a href=&quot; face=&quot;Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;1&quot; color=&quot;#FFFFFF&quot;>Cross
Country</font></a> | <a href=&quot; face=&quot;Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;1&quot; color=&quot;#FFFFFF&quot;>Dance/Drill</font></a>
| <a href=&quot; face=&quot;Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;1&quot; color=&quot;#FFFFFF&quot;>Football</font></a><br>
<a href=&quot; face=&quot;Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;1&quot; color=&quot;#FFFFFF&quot;>Golf</font></a>
| <a href=&quot; face=&quot;Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;1&quot; color=&quot;#FFFFFF&quot;>Soccer</font></a>
| <a href=&quot; face=&quot;Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;1&quot; color=&quot;#FFFFFF&quot;>Softball</font></a>
| <a href=&quot; face=&quot;Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;1&quot; color=&quot;#FFFFFF&quot;>Solo
Music</font></a> | <a href=&quot; face=&quot;Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;1&quot; color=&quot;#FFFFFF&quot;>Speech</font></a>
| <a href=&quot; face=&quot;Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;1&quot; color=&quot;#FFFFFF&quot;>Swimming</font></a>
| <a href=&quot; face=&quot;Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;1&quot; color=&quot;#FFFFFF&quot;>Tennis</font></a>
| <a href=&quot; face=&quot;Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;1&quot; color=&quot;#FFFFFF&quot;>Track
& Field</font></a> | <a href=&quot; face=&quot;Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;1&quot; color=&quot;#FFFFFF&quot;>Volleyball</font></a>
| <a href=&quot; face=&quot;Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;1&quot; color=&quot;#FFFFFF&quot;>Wrestling</font></a>
</font></div>
</td>
</tr>
 
Do you mean you want your row of links to be centred along the width of the page (eg along the top or the bottom), rather than the length of the page, which would mean they'd be floating around in space looking rather odd?

If so, then I just tried out your code in Homesite and all you have to do is put <table align=&quot;center> before <tr bgcolor=&quot;#000066&quot;> and remember to put </table> after your final </tr>. This centres the whole lot nicely.
 
Oops, slight typing error in my first post - make sure you have double quotes around &quot;center&quot; (I forgot to type the second set!)
 
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