A Real HTML Contest (in Contests)

Recreate the table below using the <table> tag. The table must include all the text located in the proper box. The table will be generated with multiple tables. The outer table is identified with the bold boarders. (Sorry if '-' doesn't appear like it's in bold, you'll just have to figure it out.) Here is the list of additional things you must do:
1) Make word "Title" stand out by making it's cell a standard header cell.
2) Make the word "center" appear in the center of the box, both horizontally and vertically, without using the "style" property.
3) Make the words "Red", "Green", and "Blue" appear their corresponding colors. The "style" property in this case IS preferred.

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|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
||          |    |||               |||S         |W   ||
||   Big    ------||               ||-----------|    ||
||          |    |||     Title     |||R   |L    |    ||
|-----------------||               |||    |-----------|
||    |     |    |||               |||    |I         ||
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
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|-----------------------------------|                 |
||         | Red                   ||                 |
|-----------------------------------|                 |
||                    | Green      ||     Center      |
|-----------------------------------|                 |
|| Blue                            ||                 |
|-----------------------------------|                 |
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First person to correctly display the table in a reply to this post wins 25k. Good luck.

(note: Yes, admins and sub-admins can play...but only if they cheat. *grin*)

I forgot to mention. I'm using Firefox and so this will be the standard browser for a correct entry. If it appears correctly under IE but not in Firefox, then you are still incorrect.

Bah,
real men don't use the table tag ;)

I know, but the CSS table is the next contest. This is for those that know the old school tricks.

Big           Title S W R L     I   Red   Green Blue Center

Your directions were a little confusing, let me know how close I am.

-cough colors cough-

The colors show fine in my other window in firefox. I wonder why they are not displaying in the post...

most likely because the forum has a base color and doesn't let anything else override it?

Big           Title S W R L     I   Red   Green Blue Center

test

doesn't display any text colors for me either :(

I'm not going to steal this but if you go check out the frame source for my bank status report it shows colors as the bgcolor. If that's what he's looking for anyways.

Oh nm I thought it was the background he was looking for.

Here is another attempt:

Big           Title S W R L I   Red   Green Blue Center

Why doesn't the <font> tag work in Firefox?

Well I did want the red, green, blue box as one table. It is very possible to do it without using two tables within the base table. Sorry I didn't say this sooner, but I was in the shower.

The font tag is considered bad because it supports absolute size of fonts, which either takes too much control away from the client or develops issues when the client looks at the page you made with larger font sizes when you built it around only one size. That's why the style tag was preferred.

And I was supposed to read your mind about how many tables to use in getting to your format? It looks like your little picture as far as I can tell. :P

One less outer table

Big	Title	S W R L I
Red   Green Blue		Center

Glory has everything except the red-green-blue box correct. (Hint: one table 3 cells by 3 cells) He will therefore get a consolation prize of 20k if anything.

Dude I tried that format for the box first and it did not display correctly in Firefox.

Ok, changed red-blue-green box to be a single table with 3x3 cells, my HTML is correct, but it is not displaying correctly.

Big	Title	S W R L I
Red   Green Blue		Center

Let me see if this will help. The blue is the outer table. Sorry Glory if this is stressing you.

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|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
||          |    |||               |||S         |W   ||
||   Big    ------||               ||-----------|    ||
||          |    |||     Title     |||R   |L    |    ||
|-----------------||               |||    |-----------|
||    |     |    |||               |||    |I         ||
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
-------------------------------------------------------
|-----------------------------------|                 |
||         | Red                   ||                 |
|-----------------------------------|                 |
||                    | Green      ||     Center      |
|-----------------------------------|                 |
|| BLue                            ||                 |
|-----------------------------------|                 |
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If you look at my HTML source, your blue box outer table is exactly the same as mine. One table, two rows, with three cells in each row, the second row has a colspan of 2 on the first cell.

Glory wins. Sorry you couldn't make it perfect. I should have tested that before I guess. There really shouldn't have been another table in the center box, but I ignored that. 25k goes to Glory.

Vestax (Storage Tank) 69.205.165.220 Glory (The Minotaur) $25000 1:12 PM EDT

Thanks :)

Yeah, the problem stems from not having cell specific to the middle column. Had I added another row like the one below there wouldn't have been an issue. Sorry about that.

	Red
		Green
Blue
	Black