Dreamweaver tables, java?

[Unregistered]

I need help controlling table &/or column width in Dreamweaver. Thus far, changing the width in the html code (in at least one place) & changing the width in the toolbar at the bottom of the page have not worked. I suspect that the code has something to do with parameters on the contents of the table.

I need to make this page:
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~pelagie/ancds/read.html
look more like this page (part of my job as a research assistant):
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~pelagie/ancds/overall.html

with regard to the width of the table on the right edge (there should be a little margin to the right of the rightmost column).

The table does not seem to let me change it by dragging (if I am indeed selecting in the right place). I have tried changing everything about the beginning & end of the html file, but that has not helped. Some Java code is included on the page, and I am not very experienced with Java; perhaps that is the problem.

Any suggestions?
thanks :)
Erin

[jharriso]

Hi Erin, you shouldn't need to tweak any of the Javascript you have, it looks like it is generating rollover effects or something of that sort. Also, to avoid possible confusion, websites usually use Javascript, not Java. Javascript was developed in 1995 by Netscape, and is so named because Java was popular at the time. There's not much else linking the two.
It looks like your problem is in 1992 Behrmann, M. & Byng, S. You left out a space between "pictures;homophone", which forced the column to be wider than it should be. put in the space, copy that cell, delete the contents of the cell, then paste back in, and it should do what you want. Similarly, the word "correspondences" is too long in Friedman, R., & Lott, S.N. (2002) and Small, S.L., Flores, D.K., & Noll, D.C. (1998). You'll need to decide how to tweak those if you want the tables to be exactly the same.

[Unregistered]

Thanks! In hindsight, that seems kinda obvious, but I didn't think of it. I really appreciate that you solved my problem (which I will fix tomorrow when I can get into my advisor's office, but I am 99% sure that's going to work).

Thanks also for straightening me out on the javascript. No wonder the class I took on Java did nothing to help me understand all that fancy code.

btw, nice dinosaur
;)
Erin