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Web Authoring Boot Camp
Get my banner or other background image to show up because only part of it does?
The background image in a table and td tag only shows up if there is other content inside
the tags to push the cell “open”. If you don’t plan to put text in there, you can:
Add style=”padding-top:____px;” or
Add a few or   tags to push down a bit.
Keep my text or images from being squashed against the side of a table cell?
You can use style=”padding-left:____;” and/or style=”padding-right:____;”
Keep one of my table columns (usually the right-hand one) from dropping down below
the rest of the table?
Ah. . . if you have chosen a fixed-width table and calculated the widths of the columns,
and have added margin measurements, you have actually added extra width on top of
your calculated columns. Remember that your column widths and margin additions must
together equal the width of the fixed width table.
Get rid of the spacing around my table cells so my borders fit seamlessly?
You need to do this inside the opening table tag by using the border-collapse option:
Note: your table can still have a border - the border-collapse simple affects the build-in
spacing around table cells ().
Change the font family and/or size through the whole web page?
You can do this in the body tag:
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