how to correctly align two tables?

[rick collette]

Hi,
If I have two tables. One table contains
a textbox, dropdowns, etc, for search; another table will
display search results.
I want to display these two tables cleanly, I want search table
occupy 20% of browser space, and results table occupy 80% of browser
space. How can I do it?
If I do something like the following:
<tr>
<td>
<table width="20%">
search criteria here...
</table>
</td>
<td>
<table width="80%">
results here...
</table>
</td>
The first table will occupy normal browser space, second table occupies
the same space as the first does, this makes browser space doubled and ugly.
thanks,

[Nathaniel Stoddard]

Try this:

<table border="1" width="100%">
  <tr>
    <td width="20%>
      Insert table 1 here
    </td>
    <td width="80%>
      Insert table 2 here
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>

[Eric Pascarello]

I recommend that you use CSS for a two column layout.
This should help: http://realworldstyle.com/2col.html
Eric