Query about Tables

silvine

HI,

I am trying to write a contact details table in HTML but the address field is aligned further right than the contact details. Can someone have a look and see what I've done wrong?

<table border="1" cellpadding="10">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><strong>Address</td>
<td>:</td>
<Td>address line 1<br> address line 2<br> address line 3<br> address line 4<br> address line 5</td>
</tr>
<table border="1" cellpadding="10">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><strong>Phone</strong></td>
<td>:</td>
<td>01-8888888</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong>Mobile</strong></td>
<td>:</td>
<td>087-888888</td>
</tr>
<tr>

jmcc

You seem to have missed a closing tag on <strong>. But most curiously, you have multiple <td></td> sections in a row (<tr></tr>. You've also missed two closing </table> tags.

Regards...jmcc

GreeBo

also...dont use tables unless you are displaying tabular data!
Ideally you would group related information together in blocks (div & span) and then style them via css.

HTML is markup, its what you want to display, css should be used to control how that data looks.

silvine

I'll take another look so. Thanks.

GreeBo

shout if you need a hand

silvine

I should probably have said I am using Wordpress to do this.

GreeBo

shouldnt be an issue...are you writing the html yourself or via some designer?

silvine

I'm writing it myself using the Wordpress editor. I'm actually trying to install MAMP at the moment as my Synology install of Wordpress keeps freezing, but I can't get Apache and MySQL servers started on my Mac.

conor.hogan.2

silvine wrote: »

but I can't get Apache and MySQL servers started on my Mac.

They should start straight up with mamp, unless the server port is in use which you should already know about. Update to the latest version of MAMP too.

You can change the port number in the settings. Use "sudo lsof -i -P" to see what is using what. It may not be the issue.

silvine

I ran network utility and found my open ports. I changed the MAMP settings to the open ports. It still didn't start Apache and MYSql.

conor.hogan.2

Did you look in MAMP/logs?