Issue with tables :( Plz Help!

Question

Hey all!
Never posted before on this forum and pretty new with
dreamweaver. So I'm having the strangest issue with dreamweaver
tables. I bought a template that I'm modifying by my self which
isnt all that hard haha. But Here's what I ran into. Whenever I put
one table and then another one under it and another one under it
and I insert txt or pics in there and save it, after I upload it
and preview it, I can only see the info from the first table.
Everything else under it, wont show up.
So no matter where and on what page I do it from that
template, if I put more than 1 table down, it'll only show the info
from the first and top table and everything else in other tables
under it, wont show up at all (after I upload it) even thou it
looks good on dreamweaver itself :(
Is there an option to enable or disable something? Plz help,
thank you all!

Answer 1

"Unknown7" <[email protected]> wrote:
> So no matter where and on what page I do it from that
template, if I put more
>than 1 table down, it'll only show the info from the
first and top table and
>everything else in other tables under it, wont show up at
all :(
>
> Is there an option to enable or disable something? Plz
help, thank you all!
The bad news is that if you want to do anything remotely
complicated with
Dreamweaver you will have to learn a fair amount about HTML.
I would virtually
guarantee that when you put your new table in something is
going wrong so that
one or other table is not being defined correctly.
As you are modifying someone else's template there is
virtually no way to find
out what is happening other than to examine the HTML. It is
unlikely that
fiddling with any Dreamweaver settings will make any
difference.
Every table should start with something like:
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0"
cellpadding="5"
bgcolor="#e0e0ff">
<tr align="center" valign="middle">
<td width="9%"><a href="#Bottom">
and end with:
</td>
</tr>
</table>
You can have more or less as many columns as you like in a
table, (<td> ...
</td>
And more or less as many rows ( <tr><td> ...
</td></tr>) as you like, but
unless you get up to special tricks you should have the same
number of columns
in every row. You can put anything you like -- images, more
tables, whatever --
inside a cell e.g.:
<td> image, blah, table </td>,
but you mustn't put any content anywhere else, and every
opening definition
(<table>, <tr>, <td> must have a matching
closing definition in the correct
order.
You can nest tables more or less indefinitely, but
Dreamweaver Design View
sometimes blows its top if you go more than three deep.
HTML usually doesn't produce any error messages, but the
effect of omitting any
of the steps in building a page is quite unpredictable.
Sometimes a major error
will not produce any visible effect, but on other occasions a
minor error will
send the page completely haywire.
You may care to have a look at:
http://www.corybas.com/Technical/Wrapping.htm
This has a series of demonstration pages illustrating what
happens when you try
to display increasingly complicated page layouts on narrow
screens.
Once you have learnt to interpret HTML, you can often learn a
lot by inspecting
the source code for the page (in IE click view, then Source).
This works with
anybody's page, so you can look at the source code for my
pages if you wish.
Clancy