Table help

[RyOn]

Ok
for example i have the following code:

<table>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td>2</td>
<td>3</td>
</tr>
</table>

In the display it looks like this

|.1...........|.2...........|.3...........|

However i want it to look like this:

|.1.|.2.|.3................................|

Then if i were to add a forth it would look like

|.1.|.2.|.3.|.4............................| <<notice that the total table width is still the same

(.) represents space as i cannot continuously use spaces in this forum.

If say "2" represents more than one word i do not want these words to be scrunched up and create a greater height, i just want to have the new table data i enter to be sent to the left as far as possible without affecting the other table data's.

And one more note, it's not really the positioning of the words that need to change, its the positioning of the table data (<td>).
I'm just still quite average at coding.

How can this be done?

Thanks