I want to make a CSS layout for a table (750px width) with five columns and border around the cells. The table should be centered on the page and the items on it also centered. Something like this:

 http://www.parroquiasanfranciscosj.com/Fotomontajes/fotomontajes.htm

Any hint or layout anywhere?

 Thanks!

Make your table have the number of row and columns you want then really the easiest way to put borders on all cells and the outside is to use html border=1 (or whatever width you want the border to be. For CSS then would suggest something like this:

table {border: 1px solid white; border-collapse: collapse; width: 600px; margin: 10px auto;}
td, th {border: 1px solid white; border-collapse: collapse; vertical-align: top; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; }

Adding the padding will keep your text from touching the borders.

Thanks, Cheryl!

 I'll try to "tweak" it by myself!

I THINK the default is vertical align middle but the style would be vertical-align: middle: for the td styling so with what Cheryl gave you  previously -

td, th {border: 1px solid white; border-collapse: collapse; vertical-align: middle; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; }

pat 

Apologies are not necessary. Glad to hlep.

pat 

Truly, CSS is a powerful simplification (among other questions). Here, I had a table somewhat involved and with CSS I have simplified it:

 http://www.parroquiasanfranciscosj.com/Fotomontajes/fotomontajes.htm

 One question: "div" tag is an old HTML tag or a new XHTML-CSS one?

<div> tags are usable in both HTML and XHTML. OK next step is to validate your code and it will give you various error messages. Some of them because your styling in the XHTML code needs to be moved to the style sheet. And ALL images require an ALT tag which describes the image or a blank alt tag if it is just a decorative image.

So the big image in the top box could be specified as the background for that cell or add an ALT tag to it.

With the page opened in code view | Right Click and choose apply xml formatting rules since you are using XHTML coding. This will add any self closing / to the code for you.

The other validation error that comes up is -

Line 29, Column 97: cannot generate system identifier for general entity "FamilyID".

…ownloads/details.aspx?displaylang=es&FamilyID=428d5727-43ab-4f24-90b7-a94784a

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An entity reference was found in the document, but there is no reference by that name defined. Often this is caused by misspelling the reference name, unencoded ampersands, or by leaving off the trailing semicolon (;). The most common cause of this error is unencoded ampersands in URLs as described by the WDG in "Ampersands in URLs".

which is telling you that anytime the ampersand is used in the url it needs to be changed to the code for the ampersand which is &amp;

 You have a style3 applied to the code which does not exist so you need to get rid of it and double check that your opening and closing tags on the tr and td match

pat
 

Ok, thank you very much! No validation errors now (but BOM which I don't know how to solve it).

BOM is not an error, it is a warning.

Under the UTF-8 specification a BOM is the recommened way to indicate that a page is UTF-8. The problem lies in that PHP doesnot understand the BOM and insists on displaying it causing problems.