Tables in HTML

[Jace-N]

I am designing a personal website for a friend. On two pages of the website I am using a table to display information. Everything is working and showing up properly, but the table is not centered on the web page. Can anyone help me figure out how to get it centered?

[silent wind]

I am designing a personal website for a friend. On two pages of the website I am using a table to display information. Everything is working and showing up properly, but the table is not centered on the web page. Can anyone help me figure out how to get it centered?

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<center> 
  <table>  
    <tr> 
      <td> </td> 
    </tr>
  </table>
</center>

That is how I would do it...

Unless you are using CSS... then you can use the style elements to control that. Everything will be centered though... including your cell content... so if you want that stuff to be aligned differently, I think you have to do something like <table align="left"> which will bump everything in the table over to a left alignment.

hope that helps.

[hecter]

I'd recommend using CSS. If you don't know it, you should learn it.
http://w3schools.com/
For all your web-based learning needs. It's pretty good. Don't take the tests they offer though, it would be a waste of money. For the time being, just try:

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<table style="width: XX%; margin: 0 auto 0 auto">
    ...
</table>

That will centre the table without also centring EVERYTHING IN the table.

[Jace-N]

Ive tried both but neither have worked. I have no idea as to why. I guess I'll just have to keep messing with it.

[hecter]

Ive tried both but neither have worked. I have no idea as to why. I guess I'll just have to keep messing with it.

Can we see your source code?

[Optimus Prime]

As hecter said, learning CSS will take you a lot further in building a website than using a table based layout.