You can use it like this, I hope you wont get outdated message now.
<td valign="top" style="white-space:nowrap" width="237">
As pointed by @ThiefMaster it is recommended to put width and valign to CSS (note: CSS calls it vertical-align).
1)
<td style="white-space:nowrap; width:237px; vertical-align:top;">
2) We can make a CSS class like this, it is more elegant way
In style section
.td-some-name
{
white-space:nowrap;
width:237px;
vertical-align:top;
}
In HTML section
<td class="td-some-name">