HTML TD width not taking effect

Looks like you've got two cells in your final row - and only one cell in each row above that. This means your table is effectively two columns wide, with the picture of the car in a tacked-on column by itself. This will be messing up the width calculations.

One way to handle this is to make the one-cell rows span two columns each, and leave the two-cell row as is. colspan will do this, and it is applied something like this:

 <tr> <td colspan="2"> <p><strong>8X4 Concrete Mixers</strong><br /> <p>2006 (56) DAF FAD CF75.360 (Euro 4) 8x4 fitted with McPhee 8m3 Rapid Discharge Concrete Mixer, Serial No: 000962H, Build Date: 08/2006, Eaton 5433-080 PTO, Chutes, Flo Meter, Water Tank and Wash Down Hose, Cab and Rear Controls, Rear Camera (not in use), 8 Speed Manual Transmission, Cruise Control, Single Passenger Seat. etc. Odometer: c.180K Kms. Tested til: End of September 2014.</p><p> 2004 (04) SCANIA 4 SERIES P114CB-380 8x4 fitted with Hymix 8m3 Rapid Discharge Concrete Mixer, Serial No: H90067, Build Date: 09/12/2003, Sauer HPM51-2 PTO, Chutes, Flo Meter, Water Tank and Wash Down Hose, Cab and Rear Electronic Controls, Brigade BE-255 Backeye Rear Camera and in Cab Monitor, 8 Speed Manual Transmission, Cruise Control, Single Passenger Seat, etc. Odometer: c.266K Kms. Test Expired: End of March 2014. </p> </p> </td> </tr> 

You need to do this to every row.

This should give your width settings more predictable results.

You can double-check your table layout by giving your table cells a temporary border with CSS like this:

td { border: 1px solid red; } 

Edit

Potentially a better solution would be to use CSS, and float: right the picture of the car (add a margin or padding to put some space around it). Then you can treat everything inside <td class="blue-table" width="375px" valign="top"> like a normal set of paragraphs and images and avoid colspan altogether. There is a long post about the merits or otherwise of using tables for layout here if you're interested: Why not use tables for layout in HTML?

Try this:

<td width="140"> 

or

<td style="width: 140px">