Tom Holden wrote:

"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message
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That's one nasty looking table, Tom. You need to at least click in
unused boxes and press the space bare so the grid shows up around unused
cells. If you're familiar with editing raw HTML with a word processor
its simple to use "Find and replace" to do it all in one pass.

Hi Mike,
I'm familiar with raw HTML. It's not required to put &nbsp into empty cells
in a table - unless you want a border around each cell. The source file
displays fine in IE, Netscape and Firefox browsers and in Outlook Express
into which it was pasted and sent. Oddly enough, my news server did not even
return my posting so I have no idea what it might have done to the html.
Google stripped all the html and made it totally scrambled. Does
rec.radio.shortwave even allow html?

73, Tom

It depends on the news server and Earthlink let it through. The
message was 1152 lines and the missing cell borders are what make the
table look bad. Whenever something pops up in that format its like
someone has slugged me because my poor vision can't line everything up
quickly. There are web sites I can't go to because they are full of
tables built like this. If you aren't going to display all the borders
you should turn them off and just have the columns aligned without any
thing in the way.

I create the tables on my web page in Wordpad and always include the
non breaking space in blank cells when a table has visable borders.

http://home.earthlink.net/~mike.terrell/ and a couple other sites I
maintain were built by hand to keep them compatable with as many
browsers as possible. The pages are small and fast loading because
there are a minimum of tags and i use a CSS to maintain the look and
colors of the site.

--
Former professional electron wrangler.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida