Internet help: (HTML) How do I make column width in pixels, but a table’s size in percent? - Help.com

You can do this manually pretty easily. Just jump into the code view and set the “width” attribute on that TD in question by hand.

hmm well other than discouraging you from using tables unless it’s tabular data (css & div’s are the way to go :-) usually you can mix % & fixed sizes, although your results will vary depending on browser, window size etc. I am personally *not* a fan of dreamweaver for a number of reasons, but on a side note what I would suggest is that you always preview in both Internet Explorer & Mozilla/Firefox browsers, don’t rely on DW’s preview pane, as it does not render the same (it’s tricky enough making pages that will look good in different browsers, as they interpret the html code & render the pages differently)

but also when DreamWeaver won’t let you do what you want to do, (and it often doesn’t, no offense to Macromedia), you can always get in there and edit the html yourself. In this case I believe that depending on what version of DW you are using, if you set up a table using %, it will assume that the whole table will use that measurement (but who the heck knows).

go the HTML edit pane, and format your sizes like:

THIS CELL IS 100 pixels

THIS CELL IS THE REMAINING WIDTH OF THE WINDOW (WINDOW minus 100 px)

good luck, have fun

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css and divs are definetelly the best when possible, i have used javascript layouts before though. But more on track if you need more help, TURN TO GOOGLE. google can answer any small problem! And for future problems with html programs consider Nvu (nvu.com), i use this instead of dreamweaver, the reason? its free to download and in many cases more usefull. having two programs makes it more likely to achieve the desired effect. bewarned, nvu is slightly messier than dreamweaver.