Question : text or image  positioning in HTML table

Hi expers,

I have a very simple table:

<table border="1" width="993" style="border-style: groove; border-width: 2px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 2px; padding-bottom: 2px; background-color: #C0C0C0" BACKGROUND="BG3.jpg" align="center">
      
      <tr>
            <td height="289" colspan="2" valign="top" ><img border="0" src="0000004.jpg" width="210" height="289"></td>
            <td rowspan="2" width="496" valign="top">

long long test here  - like 1000 lines of test
</td>

</td>
            
      
      </tr>
      
      <tr valign="top">
            <td width="88" valign="top" >
                  <p style="padding-left:6pt;">
                     <a href="ninetysixth.htm" style="padding-left:3pt;">THIS IS A LINK HERE</a>
   
      </td>
      </tr>
      
</table>

And for some reason,the top left cell height becomes very big, probably as the half of the height of thr long test in the cesond column

Please help!

Answer : text or image  positioning in HTML table

Actually the mounting hole spacing is very well defined by the ATA specifications.

Here's the appropriate page from an IBM document that details the hole locations ...