html alignment question

[Sumithab Baskaran]

Hi All!

I have a table that needs to be divided into 2 td's. Like this:

<table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0">
<tr>

<td>
<table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0">
<tr class="breadcrumbBkgd">
<td>Backout Summary</td>
<td>Backout Id </td>
<td>Description</td>
<td>Status</td>
<td>Record Count</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>

<td>
<table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0">
<tr class="breadcrumbBkgd">
<td>Rerun Summary</td>
<td>Rerun Id</td>
<td>Description</td>
<td>Status</td>
<td>Record Count</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>

</tr>
</table>

My question: One of these td's can have empty columns. That is, if the Backout Summary columns are populated, the Re-run Summary columns "can" be empty. If both are populated, I have no alignment problems. When one of them is empty, the tables are not aligned. How many ever records there are in one table, the other table is so many columns mis-aligned.
How can I fix this problem?
Thanks in advance!

[Eric Pascarello]

set the widths of the tds holding the other table to 50%. That may help.

Eric

[Sumithab Baskaran]

changing the widths to 50% did not help.

[Denise Hum]

Try putting an   in the empty cell.

[Denise Hum]

oops, that was supposed to be the code for an empty space & nbsp;