Creating a Table with HTML: blank space problem

[RedKnight]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

This may seem trivial, but have you tried putting the quotation marks in the table tag where they should be?

Although documentation does suggest the use of with or without quotation marks I did try both ways with the same result.

Now, with some tinkering I have been able to confirm that for some unknown reason the what is displaying is all non-coded blank spaces before the table, so using the code as:

<table border=1 cellpadding=5 width=100%><tr><th>Column 1</th><th>Column 2</th><th>Column 3</th><th>Column 4</th><th>Column 5</th></tr><tr><td>Item 1</td><td>Item 2</td><td>Item 3</td><td>Item 4</td><td>Item 5</td></tr><tr><td>Item A</td><td>Item B</td><td>Item C</td><td>Item D</td><td>Item E</td></tr></table>

eliminates all the blank space, but does produce a coding nightmare. There must be something that I am missing that is having all the non-coded sections included for some reason.