Controlling 
  Breaking in a Cell:
  
  TABLE:
| Males | Females | |
| Horses at the Faraway Farm | 2 | 2 | 
| Ponies at home | 4 | 1 | 
use the NOWRAP 
  attribute in the <td> tag
  <td 
  NOWRAP> 
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> 
<html>
  <head>
  <title>table</title>
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
  </head>
  <body>
  <table width="75%" border="1">
  <tr> 
  <td bgcolor="red" width="31%"> </td>
  <td width="37%">Males</td>
  <td width="32%">Females</td>
  </tr>
  <tr> 
  <td NOWRAP valign=top width="31%">Horses 
  at the Faraway Farm</td>
  <td width="32%">2</td>
  <td width="32%">2</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td width="31%">Ponies at home</td>
  <td width="37%">4</td>
  <td width="32%">1</td>
  </tr>
  </table>
  </body>
  </html>