tables help im confused

[s2kinteg916]

 <table><tr><td>
                    <form action="http://www.carphotoalbums.com/photos/login.php" method="post"><input tabindex="1" type="text" name="authuser" size="15" maxlength="40" value=""> 
                                <input tabindex="2" type="password" name="password" size="15" maxlength="25"> 
                                <input type="hidden" name="url" value="http://www.carphotoalbums.com/photos/index.php"> 
                                <input tabindex="3" type="submit" name="submit" value="Login" style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana'>
              <a href = "http://www.carphotoalbums.com/forums/member.php?&action=lostpw" onclick = "self.href('http://www.carphotoalbums.com/forums/member.php?&action=lostpw');"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Forgot 
              Password?</font></a> 
			  </form>
			  </td></tr></table>

why is there a huge gap around my textbox ? im totally confused can anyone know wha tim doing wrong ?

i attached a image but it needs to be approved

[s2kinteg916]

http://www.practiceboard.com/?629428

[chromate]

use...

style="margin: 0 0 0 0; padding: 0 0 0 0;"

... on your table & form elements.

[Mike]

That practiceboard looks like a good little tool, for looking at code posted here etc.

[bugsy]

Maybe while you're at it, you can start using css instead of font tags.

[MarkB]

Put the <form> tags outside of the <td> tags. Might not be correct HTML (or maybe it is?), but that works for me (it's what I always do).

[chromate]

Well, it's not correct XHTML . I used to do exactly the same thing though, until I discovered that a little bit of CSS does the trick.

[MarkB]

Pah sloppy coding never hurt anyone LOL

[incka]

It does!

Read the XHTML part of www.w3schools.com

[Mike]

My template site has awful coding. I want to change it, but I don't have that much time at the moment.

Also that's why I want to change to CSS, asap.

[MarkB]

Ah, yous guys gots no humour

[incka]

I have. But I keep it in general chat here...

[Mike]

Originally posted by MarkB
Ah, yous guys gots no humour

LOL

I have

[GCT13]

Say I have a site I'm going to build this week. What are the short term and long term cons of not going the XHTML route? (instead using of old-school tables)

[Mike]

It's supposedly easier to edit if you go the XHTML route. So if you wanted to change all the link colours, you would just edit one part of a file. Same with anything else. With HTML you would have to change all the <font> tags.