The preferred positioning mechanism, as keszler (++) indicates, is CSS.

That has a fairly steep learning curve, for someone not intimate with HTML and styling concepts.

For your simple use case, I'd suggest embedded tables.

Use an outer table without borders, and embed an empty cell, followed by your first (offset) table.

FYI- the empty cell can be filled with 5 x " " which represents a non-breaking space.

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In reply to Re: Indention of SQL Search Result In An HTML Page by NetWallah
in thread Indention of SQL Search Result In An HTML Page by Milti

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