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**DaveT** · 07-Dec-2004, 01:24 PM

Do you have a URL to show us?

Also you might try explicitly setting cellpadding="0" into the table cell as well.

**Mike Hughes** · 07-Dec-2004, 01:26 PM

replace your <body> tag with <body marginwidth=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 topmargin=0>.

Mike

**magicalwonders** · 07-Dec-2004, 01:57 PM

Hello Dave & Mike,

I don't have a URL at the moment as I'm trying to get this to work locally on my machine first.

I've tried the following code which displays as shown in the attached screenshot.

<table width="100%" cellpadding="0" border="1" marginwidth="0" leftmargin="0" marginheight="0" topmargin="0">
<tr>
<td width="100%"> Test </td>
</tr>
</table>

I'm not able to try this out on my other machine running 98 as I'm waiting for a new mouse on that machine! I'm wondering if this is some weird thing to do with SP2.

I've tried specifying pixel width so that it creates a hoizontal scroll and I still get a space on each side of the cell as well as the top!

Myles

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**Mike Hughes** · 07-Dec-2004, 02:21 PM

Myles,

Not in the <table> tag, in your <body> tag. it goes after the </head> tag.

If you're not already doing so, I'd recommend you get an HTML editor.

Mike

Like this:

<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title></title>
<meta name="description" content="">
<meta name="keywords" content="">
</head>
<body marginwidth=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 topmargin=0>

<table width="100%" cellspacing="0" border="1">
<tr>
<td width="100%"> Test </td>
</tr>
</table>

</body>
</html>

**magicalwonders** · 07-Dec-2004, 02:48 PM

Thanks Mike,

I can see where I've been going wrong now.

I've steared away from using an editor so I can learn to hand code html. I suppose an editor would be useful for when I get stuck and can't see where I'm going wrong. My only fear is that I will come to rely on it and then use it all the time.

I do have Dreamweaver, but the learning curve on that seems bigger than html! Maybe something simpler would be better for me.

Many thanks for the help.

Myles

**Mike Hughes** · 07-Dec-2004, 03:06 PM

I hand code my html too, but an HTML editor is handy for the basics like making sure the <body> tag is there, comment tags get closed and things like that.

I use AceHTML which has served me well for the last few years. It's not expensive and there is a freeware version that's usually one release out of date with some ads when you start it up.

Mike

**DaveT** · 07-Dec-2004, 03:19 PM

HTML Kit is very good (don't think I'm allowed to post URL's - do a Google on it). Also free. Features addins for PHP and other languages + stylesheets.

The problem is definitely in your <body> tag.
You can specify body styles in the stylesheet also:

body {margin:0; padding:0}

In fact you will probably find that Opera always puts a border around everything, even when set to 0.

To fix this you use:

body {margin:-10px; padding:0}

Usually this also works OK in other browsers (ie, it does not pull it off the screen).

**magicalwonders** · 07-Dec-2004, 07:55 PM

Thanks Mike, Thanks Dave,

I appreciate the advice. For some reason I didn't get email notification of these last two messages. This has happened once or twice now with previous posts. Does this happen to anyone else?

Not a big problem as I usually look at the forum two or three times a day. Although once I battled away for a whole day only to find that Norman had posted a solution the day before!

Thanks again for your help.

Myles

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