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My suggestion: instead of putting the background on the table, put the background on a table cell with rowspan=3, meaning it will cover the area to the right of all three radio buttons. Here's an HTML sample illustrating the technique. Note that you'll need to carefully size each column (and the enclosing table) to make sure your image fits in properly.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"&gt;
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;
<head>
<style type="text/css">
table.contactForm
{
    background-color:#EBF3F7;
    width:681px;
} 
table.contactForm td
{
    text-align:left;
    padding-top:5px;
    padding-bottom:5px;
    padding-left:0px;
    padding-right:0px;
    white-space:nowrap;
    height:25px;
}
table.contactForm td.first
{
    width:200px;    
}
table.contactForm label
{
    padding-left:5px;
}
table.contactForm td.second
{
    width:200px;
    text-align:right;
}
table.contactForm td input[type=text]
{
    width:180px;    
}
table.contactForm td.third
{
    width:20px; 
    text-align:right;
}
table.contactForm td.imageArrows
{
    background-image:url(background.jpg);
    background-repeat:no-repeat;
    background-position:left center;
    width:261px;
    height:78px;
    padding:0px;
}

</style>
</head>

<body>
<table class="contactForm">
<tr>
<td class="first"><label for="FullName">Full Name</label></td>
<td class="second"><input type="text" name="FullName" /></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr><td colspan="4"><br/></td></tr>
<tr>
<td class="first"><label for="Phone">Phone</label></td>
<td class="second"><input type="text" name="Phone" /></td>
<td class="third"><input type="radio" name="Preferred" /></td>
<td rowspan="3" class="imageArrows"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="first"><label for="Mobile">Mobile</label></td>
<td class="second"><input type="text" name="Mobile" /></td>
<td class="third"><input type="radio" name="Preferred" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="first"><label for="Email">Email</label></td>
<td class="second"><input type="text" name="Email" /></td>
<td class="third"><input type="radio" name="Preferred" /></td>
</tr>

</table>
</body>
</html>

Justin Grant 2009-11-09 20:02:08

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