tables..borders- getting them to line up?

Hi guys. I was just wandering if i could get some help...

i am designing a website and on the left i have a main cell which i put all my stuff in and on the right i have another cell which is not as wide, but both have a border around them (refer to second pic).

basically i want to know how i can get the very bottom border of both cells to line up at the bottom exactly (look at firstpic how i want it)

i use coldfusion so perhaps a dynamic script could work their?

i know i could do this if they were the same row, but they arent..., in fact each cell on the left and right has a table in it (and that table is has the blue border)

hope you understood that, any help would be appreciated thanks

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Still using Tables for Layout? Tables are meant to store Data, you should learn CSS. Might sound harsh, but if you do it now, you wont have to do it 5 years down the line. Check the Stickies in the CSS Forum, there are loads of great links there.

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...my tables use css to control the formatting...is this what you mean? i do know css... this website though was built by someone else and im just doing some updates to the site and rebuilding the whole site would be too much time and effort for what im trying to achieve...../

I agree with what jack has said, but if you just want to modify the tables could you not just add a height to it?

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What Jack means is that instead of using tables, you could use a thing called a <div>.

Instead of setting a table column width to 500px, you could style a <div> to 500px and position it wherever you want on the page, regardless of any other elements. With tables, you are very restricted in nearly all ways.

Tables were originally designed for storing data like results of a Rugby Team's Performance in a certain season, and not for holding massive blocks of content and images or being the main thing behind websites.

Ed.

Tables also slow down the loading of your page, because your browser reads it twice, once for layout size etc, then again for content, ill find the reasons why not to use tables in a second, but using divs doesn't take that much time and in the long run will be benaficial

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http://www.webforumz.com/css-forum/3...how-to-use.htm

heres the list of reasons

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thanks for the replies.. and i do agree that using div's is much easier..but the old website designer has used tables and i am just modifying a few pages, and dont want to do a whole website rejig..so just wanting to know if their is any way of doing this with tables...maybe i wil try setting the height property

if you are just modifying them and don't want to use divs then i would just set a height, would be the easiest thing to do IMO

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Ahem, that wouldn't be *england*cough! vs *france*cough! you were referring to Ed?

No, I was talking about the likeliness of having to add Ireland's win against England into my data table.

lol

Ed.