<div align="center"><b><font color="darkred" size="5">Webtv Glitch -- JS Failure -- Reload Page</font></b></div>

The Problem with the <<>P ALIGN> tag and the PageBuilder NOTE: This problem seems to have been "fixed" by the May-June upgrade of 2000. Using a <<>p align="left/right/center"> tag before a table code will result in an unwanted gap at the bottom of a table. Webtv automatically adds a <<>p align=....> tag to the "add an item"--"text" areas which can cause gaps at the bottom of tables. The codes that Webtv automatically adds are in uppercase yellow-type below: <<>TABLE> <<>TR><<>TD> <<>H3 ALIGN=LEFT> "Contents of the title area" <<>/H3> <<>P ALIGN=LEFT> "Contents of the text area" <<>/P> <<>/TD><<>/TR><<>/TABLE> The large gaps below the photo in the tables below is caused by the <<>P ALIGN=left> tag that webtv adds to the source code of the webpage. Using this in the "Contents of the text area": <<>table border="3" bgcolor="#000033"><<>tr><<>td> <<>table border="3" bgcolor="#800000"><<>tr><<>td> <<>img src="url of image" width=150> <<>/td><<>/tr><<>/table> <<>/td><<>/tr><<>/table> results in large gaps at the bottom of the tables below: To disrupt the effects of the <<>P ALIGN=left> tag that webtv uses, use a <<>p> anywhere before your table code. (It can be at the very beginning of the "text" area; it does not have to be right before your table code.) Or use a line tag <<>hr align="left/right/center" width="#"> somewhere before the table codes. Using this in the "Contents of the text area": <<>p> <<>table border="3" bgcolor="#000033"><<>tr><<>td> <<>table border="3" bgcolor="#800000"><<>tr><<>td> <<>img src="url of image" width=150> <<>/td><<>/tr><<>/table> <<>/td><<>/tr><<>/table> results in the table below: Using this in the "Contents of the text area": <<>p><<>div align="center"> <<>table border="3" bgcolor="#000033"><<>tr><<>td> <<>table border="3" bgcolor="#800000"><<>tr><<>td> <<>img src="url of image" width=150> <<>/td><<>/tr><<>/table> <<>/td><<>/tr><<>/table> <<>/div> results in a centered table, without a gap:

Unfortunately the method described above will result in an error or warning when the page is run through a validator such as Weblint or Dr. Watson. Using the method above results in the overall source code below (when viewed at Transcribe): <<>TABLE> <<>TR><<>TD> <<>H3 ALIGN=LEFT> "Contents of the title area" <<>/H3> <<>P ALIGN=LEFT> <<>p>Table codes here <<>/P> <<>/TD><<>/TR><<>/TABLE> The error of the code above is that the opening <<>P ALIGN=left> tag is not closed off before adding a new <<>p> tag. To avoid a validation error, a <<>/p> tag should be added at the very beginning of the "add an item"--"text" area, and then a <<>p> tag should be added at the very end of the "add an item"--"text" area, resulting in the overall source code looking like this (when viewed at Transcribe): <<>TABLE> <<>TR><<>TD> <<>H3 ALIGN=LEFT> "Contents of the title area" <<>/H3> <<>P ALIGN=LEFT> <<>/p>(at the beginning of the "text" area) Table codes here <<>p>(at the end of the "text" area) <<>/P> <<>/TD><<>/TR><<>/TABLE> Using this method the <<>p> tags are opened and closed in the correct places. Actually a better method of aligning images and text, etc is here . Back to <<>div> tags page More Webtv PageBuilder help