I need help with html tables!!!?

I want to align horisantaly and vertically many tables like how is it on yahoo's page and others how can do that I am able to fix them vertically but not horisantily please help! I hope my question is clear.

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  1. yahoo.com uses div tags and css based layout, not tables. I'm not sure what you are trying to do, but to make a layout similar to yahoo, but with tables, you will need to you nested tables. One container table, and then three col style tables lined up side by side. I think you are having issue with spanning the cols, because if you use one table, with different cells, once one cell is filled with content and pushed down, the nature of tables is to expand all of the cells in the row to fit the extended layout.
  2. u need to edit it, or ask someone who knows.
  3. I don't think I could've answered your question if it was more clear.
  4. you load that yahoo page and go to view->page source.and you can see what tags they had used
  5. I'm not a expert web designer (by any means) but since you don't seem to be getting very many replies I thought I'd offer you a little of my limited experience. I created a page using nested tables awhile back, I messed around with it for an entire day before I had it the way I wanted. (Tables within tables can get confusing!) If I remember correctly what I did to get it to work was make the entire page a table and then build the others inside of that. The page is no longer up but if you want to see the page and source I uploaded it here (.zip archive): http://www.geocities.com/one_tweak_loop/misc_files/temp/11502_temp.zip I looked for the site I got my info from but couldn't find it in my bookmarks, but a search for "html nested tables" may get you good results. (When I was trying to learn them all I could find was examples of simple data tables, not alot of help.) One thing you could try is using CSS for menu(s) and build tables in main body. I got my layout from BlueRobot (they have a 3 column layout as well); I link to it here: http://www.one-tweak-loop.com/link_pages/links_info.html (apparently "zenthil" hasn't looked at Yahoo's source lately! can't really make "heads or tails" out of that! --- W3schools.com isn't too bad though, they use tables.) good luck _
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