Help with HTML tables

Hi all, I am massively frustrated, I have a webpage with a table in and every time it is refreshed the table appears to be a different size. Is there any code I can use to make it a fixed size. I have had a look around for html tutorials and tried everytning but no joy. The page is created by php but I don't think this should matter. Any help would be very very appreciated. My page is http://www.in4matrix.co.uk/search
Thanks

 

use attribute width=500 for 500 pixel width or width=50% for 50% of browser size.

 

Thanks dude but tried both those already, it's a lot more sinister than that. I have been reading the forums here and I'm going to put borders around each table to see where the problem is.

 

Using invalid markup causes the browser to guess at what you meant. Fix your errors, and debugging will result in a more expected rendering.

cheers,

gary

 

Yeah, I think it was because I had a few tables without specifying their width. Have been through code now and hopefully fixed it. Thanks for your help folks.

 

It took me forever to get the hang of tables... use css its much much nicer..

 

yeah css is the way to go..tables arent really suitable for what your doing there..tables were initially used to structure tabular data n such =P

 

i guess you should define the border because the tables are realy nasty.

 

Perhaps you will find out more on your problem by reading:
http://hotdesign.com/seybold/everything.html

 

I've just started to hear about using css instead of tables (I've been doing websites for quite sometime... I guess I just have been out of the loop). How does that work? What is the benefit? Speed? Maybe you know of a nice little article out there that sums it up.

 

I would reccomend trying CSS.