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i have a table ive refreshed my data many times restarted everything. even changed stylesheet names and put the table in a class with the css for the class being width:500px;
now the code i have is<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width:500px" width="500">
it doesnt work. i took out both widths, then i added one then the other. took out the class obviously but still stupid internet explorer is making the table MORE THAN 100PERCENT of the page when theres nothin in it more than 490px ok. what is going on?

ok i just figured out why because i had one long thing i had to use word-wrap:break-word for. inside the 490px div and it works its not stretching but how do i get the outside table from stretching?