Title: Table Formating Problem
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Table Formating Problem

 *  [jamiedolan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jamiedolan/)
 * (@jamiedolan)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/table-formating-problem/)
 * HI,
    I am having trouble getting a table to format properly in WP. This image
   shows my problem:
 * [http://www.dolanhosting.net/jamiedolan/htmlhelp.jpg](http://www.dolanhosting.net/jamiedolan/htmlhelp.jpg)
 * This is my code: (I don’t see any padding values other than 0). I’m am guessing
   this might be related to how the photo gets inserted
 *     ```
       <table style="background-color: #f5f5f5; width: 150px; height: 200px;" border="1" cellspacing="0" align="right">
       <tbody>
       <tr>
       <td style="text-align: center;"><strong>"Jamie with Akiva & Vasco"</strong></td>
       </tr>
       <tr>
       <td><p><a href="http://jamiedolan.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/IMG_8964.CR2.jpg"><img class="aligncenter" style="border: 0pt none; margin: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" title="Jamie Dolan Akiva & Vasco" src="http://jamiedolan.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/IMG_8964.CR2-300x300.jpg" alt="Jamie Dolan Akiva & Vasco" width="200" height="200" /></a></p></td>
       </tr>
       <tr>
       <td><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">by: Jamie Dolan</span><br />
        <a class="aligncenter" title="Contact" href="http://jamiedolan.com/contact/" target="_blank">Click here to conact Jamie</a></p></td>
       </tr>
       </tbody>
       </table>
       ```
   
 * Thank you very much for any assistance you can provide.
    Jamie Dolan

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 *  [WatchCount.com](https://wordpress.org/support/users/watchcountcom/)
 * (@watchcountcom)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/table-formating-problem/#post-1282247)
 * Jamie, it looks like you’re trying to get rid of that extra space, right? I think
   the issue is simple: the <p> tags by default insert padding/margins. I’d say 
   either remove the <p> tags, or insert some CSS like this: `<p style="margin: 
   0px; padding: 0px;">`
 * Also, whenever I have trouble with formatting tables, I toggle/experiment with
   the following CSS:
 *     ```
       <table style="table-layout: auto; border-collapse: collapse;">
       <table style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse;">
       ```
   
 * Table size is tricky, especially given differences between browsers, and that
   IE (perhaps others) take width/height instructions as “suggestions” some of the
   time. You might find that dropping the width/height properties for table, and
   using the “auto” option I mentioned above, a good combination.
 * Let us know how it goes.
 * -WC
 *  [vmiko2op](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vmiko2op/)
 * (@vmiko2op)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/table-formating-problem/#post-1282252)
 * Hello,
    My theme is WORD PRESS CLASSIC 1.5 [http://www.welcomehomenetwork.net](http://www.welcomehomenetwork.net)
 * How can I move the photo of my Mom on my HOME page to the right and move up the
   text on the left please, like the ABOUT US page (which is in a table). I checked
   the box indicating ‘align right’ in EDIT IMAGE but nothing happens. If I have
   to insert the photo in a table with the text, yikes, how do I do that? Obviously
   I’m new at this. Thank you! Vicki Miko
 *  Thread Starter [jamiedolan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jamiedolan/)
 * (@jamiedolan)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/table-formating-problem/#post-1282409)
 * Thank you WatchCount.com,
 * Yes, the spacing was my issue. Taking out the p tag solved most of the display
   issues. I added in the css and that helped with the formatting as well. I still
   get a bit of weirdness on some things with tables on my site going from Firefox
   to IE. Hard to believe in this day and age that the 2 browsers can’t manage to
   view a web page the same way.
 * Thanks very much for your help
    Jamie Dolan
 *  [WatchCount.com](https://wordpress.org/support/users/watchcountcom/)
 * (@watchcountcom)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/table-formating-problem/#post-1282421)
 * Jamie,
 * Glad to hear you made some good progress with that.
 * Yes, browser compatibility will always be an issue to some degree for every webmaster.
   IE8 does a pretty good job of following web standards. When I code now I find
   that getting things right for both IE8 and FF3 isn’t too difficult. Once I get
   that, I use IE8’s “Compatibility Mode” to show me how IE7 would display things;
   then I attempt to make some tweaks in the code to accommodate IE7 if possible.
   I usually leave it at that, hoping for the best with Chrome and Safari and the
   others, although I may use [Browsershots.org](http://browsershots.org/) quickly
   to give me some reassurances in that department.
 * -WC

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