lengthing table columns Options

[minidiapolis]

Is there a way of lengthing one column of a table?

[Darin McGrew]

It sounds like you're looking for the rowspan attribute. See TD - Table Data Cell in our HTML 4 reference.

[minidiapolis]

rowspan didn't change anything

[Darin McGrew]

Can you provide the URL (address) of a document that demonstrates the problem?

[minidiapolis]

www.fountainchurch.org

[Darin McGrew]

Ack, I just noticed that I pasted the wrong URL earlier. The correct URL is
http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/tables/td.html

Anyway, rowspan="1" does nothing. That's the default, and specifies that the current cell should span 1 row in the table.

Is that what you want? If not, can you explain what exactly you do want?

[minidiapolis]

lol, I wondered how your first link correlated with the topic

Anyway I want "Small Group" and "Ministry Team to be on the same line.

[Darin McGrew]

Well, depending on what you mean by "on the same line"...

CODE

<tr>
  <td rowspan="2"><img src=... alt=...></td>
  <td><a href=...>Small Groups</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td><a href=...>Ministry Team</a></td>
</tr>

or

CODE

<tr>
  <td rowspan="2"><img src=... alt=...></td>
  <td>
    <a href=...>Small Groups</a><br>
    <a href=...>Ministry Team</a>
  </td>
</tr>

BTW, alt="picture of a puddle" is rather inappropriate, unless you think this makes sense:

CODE

   picture of a puddle Home
   picture of a puddle About Us
   picture of a puddle Programs
   picture of a puddle The Water Cooler
   picture of a puddle Small Groups
   picture of a puddle Ministry Team
   picture of a puddle Staff

See also Use of ALT texts in IMGs.

And font-size: 150% is rather large for body text.

[minidiapolis]

I realize the ALT tag needs changed. . . just haven't gotten around to it.

Right now it's like this:
Ministry
Team

Small
Group

I need it to be
Ministry Team
Small Group

Make sense?

[Darin McGrew]

The words wrap when they are wider than the space you've allowed for the width of the navbar. The oversized font makes them even wider, which makes wrapping more likely.

You can use &nbsp; or the nowrap attribute to prevent wrapping, but that's going to make the navbar wider, so you'll need to adjust your layout accordingly.

[minidiapolis]

I thought &nbsp just left spaces.

[Frederiek]

It's a Non Breaking SPace.

[minidiapolis]

To use nowrap would the code be

<td align="center" style="" nowrap>

[Darin McGrew]

Yep.

If you were using XHTML, it would be a little different, but you aren't.

CSS 2.1 also offers the white-space property.

[minidiapolis]

how can I make the rows thinner?

[Darin McGrew]

how can I make the rows thinner?

Put smaller (or less) content in them.

[minidiapolis]

There's no other way? The rows just look too thick.

[Darin McGrew]

AFAICS, the height of your rows is limited by the dimensions of http://www.fountainchurch.org/pictures/puddle.gif (unless the font size happens to be larger than 96px or so).