Anyone know a good website that explains how to use tables instead of frames for web layout?  Also, is it possible to change an include file that is used in a table based on a session variable or request.querystring?

1. I don't know of any tutorial that descrbes what you are looking for but there should be some on how to use tables, check some html sites like w3schools.com

2. You cannot do dynamic includes like that. Sure you can put them in if statements but no matter what, all code would be included even the ones not being used. Include's are not ASP, they are SSI and so get executed before any script block.

michael wrote: Include's are not ASP, they are SSI and so get executed before any script block.

Try and tell Maddog that!

Bunce wrote: michael wrote: Include's are not ASP, they are SSI and so get executed before any script block. Try and tell Maddog that!

What is that supposed to mean?

Tables are fairly easy there is an ok tutorial at http://www.spoono.com - www.spoono.com , but i will try to help

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in the body section of your html code, you would put a tag <table>, this would make a table. To define the width and or hight of the table you would just make <table width="100%" height="100%"> so in there you would have a table that spans across the whole width, and heigth of the screen.

Under the Table tags, if you want multiple columnes, and rows, you always start with a row. So under the Table Tag, you would put
<tr> (row) the <tr> tag cannot be defined any further. It just creats a row as wide as the table. Under the tr tag, you would want to create a cell that fills up this row the tag for a cell is <td>. you can have one or multiple cells in a row. So your code should look like this

<table width="100%" height="100%">

   <tr>

        <td width="33%" height="30">This is the left cell</td>

        <td width="33%" height="30">This is the middle cell</td>

        <td width="34%" height="30"> This is the right cell</td>

This code would have a table with 3 almost equal cells across it filling up the whole screen. The Colspan, and Rowspan define how many rows or columes a cell can span across. For Example

<table width="100%" height="100%">

   <tr>

        <td width="33%" height="30">This is the left cell</td>

        <td width="33%" height="30">This is the middle cell</td>

        <td width="34%" height="30"> This is the right cell</td>

   </tr>

   <tr>

        <td colspan="3" bgcolor="ff0000" width="100%" height="50"><b>BIG CELL</b></td>

</tr>

</table>

This would make a 2 row table, on the top row, there would be 3 cells, and on the bottom row, there would be one big cell.

I hope this little tut helped out, if not, im sure somone else can help.

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MadDog wrote: Bunce wrote: michael wrote: Include's are not ASP, they are SSI and so get executed before any script block. Try and tell Maddog that! What is that supposed to mean?

Sorry, I wasn't very descriptive.

You have a tutorial on your site that recommends using conditional includes, which are pointless in ASP for the reason that Michael has listed.

I tried to explain it on your site but you didn't seem to like my post.

Cheers,
Andrew