Column 1 Table with borders
  This important text should not be over the orange background. This table uses "column width" properties of the columns in a table to prevent the second column from falling over the border on the left.

 

Column 1 Table without borders
 

This important text should not be over the orange background. This table uses "column width" properties of the columns in a table to prevent the second column from falling over the border on the left.

 

Column 1 Table with borders and graphic spacer

This important text should not be over the orange background. This table uses a tranparent GIF in the first column, over the orange background. I've named the graphic "blank.gif" and you can see it by Clicking Here. The blank graphic is one pixel by one pixel, but HTML code has been used to resize it. The code looks like:

<img src="../blank.gif" width="146" height="1">