table width,table nesting

when i nested two tables the pages came side by side
and the assignment which i submitted the links which i placed table was unable to reduce the width
when iam trying to reduce the width the height is going more
i tryed a lot ,can u please tell me how to reduce the width

Hi

<table width="500" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td>



<!--inside table 1 start-->
<table width="200" height="100" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
</table>
<!--inside table 1 close-->


</td>
<td>

<!--inside table 2 start-->

<table width="200" height="100" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
</table>
<!--inside table 2 start-->


</td>
</tr>
</table>

Try this hop this will solve your problem, if not please past your code here let me see.

Regards