height = 100%... OF WHAT?

BushGates · Joined: 12 Dec 2004 Posts: 3

Hi,

I've been developing my webpage and ran into the following dillema:
My page works perfectly in Mozilla and FireFox
Opera and IE 6 fail to display it as intended.

(http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~coolbest)

Basically to sumamrise the problem: i have a table inside of a table. Table thats inside needs to occupy 100% of the height of the parent table. Mozilla and Firefox do it as expected - by setting height = 100% attribute of the table. In case of IE 6 it seems that height = 100% in MS terms is 100% of the availible screen, but not all of the space on the page. Opera just ingnores 100% all together (i'm not too worried about opera - usage stats r against it). But IE is a biggie.

Getting the size of the table to the required height wouldn't scale well in my case. So filling it up with <br> is out.

Am i missing some small detail out somewhere? Or if its just the way that IE does things, how do i get around it?

Please help,
Nick Goloborodko

P.S. i am aware that height attribute is not officially defined in HTML, but...

romeonate · Joined: 16 Dec 2004 Posts: 16

(replied to in another post, but here again for reference)

Hey BushGates..

I often do coding like that.

have a Parent table with Defined Width/Height, with a Sub-Table whos width is 100%.

In IE, it works fine for me, no problems.

In your Table Coding, are you also defining, "Cellspacing" & "cellpadding" ?

I always keep those at zero ( cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" )

BushGates · Joined: 12 Dec 2004 Posts: 3