I understand, or seem to, that if you want to have floating tables like on this page (http://members.chello.nl/pjwell/sheila/blog.html), then you need to nest them. I was wondering if anyone could tell me the proper codes to do this, because when I try nesting the tables in data cells it doesn't really seem to work, and I deleted my codes in frustration, so if someone can give me a simple code for floating tables such as that it would be very much appreciated thx

your sample is not a good example to learn from as they have some coding errors.

essentially though, nesting tables all depends on the layout you are trying to acheive.

start with a piece of paper and pencil.
draw out what type of look you want.
code from there.

start with the outer table first.
insert full tables within the cells of the main table as required.
and so on.

eventually, you may want to look into using css and positioning div areas instead of tables for you layout. but thats another story.

Now trying to learn how to do the CSS one, it's a lot simpler I think

http://www.lissaexplains.com/forum//showthread.php?s=&threadid=32117

My blog uses a blogger (http://www.blogger.com) template, so I don't doubt that there are a lot of errors.

I see I just liked the way the tables float... another example would be kevinworld.org (http://kevinworld.org)

I use b2 (http://cafelog.com)

Originally posted by Sheila
My blog uses a blogger (http://www.blogger.com) template, so I don't doubt that there are a lot of errors.

sorry sheila. didnt mean to imply any bad stuff. no there are not a "lot" of errors. i had just done a quick glance and noticed the css area was out of the head area and values within the body area were missing the quote tags and stuff. minor things.

considering the question was about the table structuring, that page may be a good example in respect.

if you are not into css or layer and positioning or can't quit get the hang of it nested tables is the best thing. Its tables placed in tables. but sometimes they can get confusing with all the table tags.

Originally posted by Aprilrenee
if you are not into css or layer and positioning or can't quit get the hang of it nested tables is the best thing. Its tables placed in tables. but sometimes they can get confusing with all the table tags.

Yeah, I used multiple tables inside tables. Not that complicated. It might get a little confusing with all the table tags though.

I tried CSS, but I couldn't get the things lined up next to each other like you can with tables