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vavroom
Joined: 17 Jul 2005
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Location: New Zealand / Aotearoa
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 Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 10:53 pm Explorer cell height problem |
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Hello,
Hope someone can help me, as I'm about to bang my head through our brick wall  Been trying to figure out this problem all day, to no avail. I've looked on the forum and while there appears to be a couple other threads with similar problem, it didn't seem to address my issue. I could have missed something, please feel free to point me to an appropriate thread if I've missed it 
I don't have a live link as I'm developping locally. And the html/css I use is rather large, but I've replicated my problem in one simple table posted below.
I am using a table for layout (yes, I prefer css, but...)
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<table width="100%" border="1" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td height="10px" id="a"> </td>
<td rowspan="2" width="400px" id="b"> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Proin erat. In sapien. Sed sed dui. Aenean venenatis, est vitae fermentum iaculis, mi erat pretium massa, et congue pede mauris a arcu. Nulla tincidunt, nunc eu malesuada mollis, mauris sem consectetuer orci, sit amet lacinia nunc dolor in urna. Ut gravida feugiat lorem. Quisque dignissim. Vestibulum ante ipsum primis in faucibus orci luctus et ultrices posuere cubilia Curae; Sed eros felis, tincidunt nec, lacinia a, convallis a, ante. Nunc quis tellus. Morbi rutrum porta mauris. Sed id mi ac tortor tincidunt facilisis. Mauris commodo fringilla justo. Phasellus magna. Morbi fringilla lacinia dolor. Morbi non libero. </td>
<td id="c"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td id="d"> </td>
<td id="e"> </td>
</tr>
</table> |
My problem is that defining a height for cells a and d seem to have no effect, until their height is greater than cell c and e. a, c, d and e are all empty cells, with a background image applied through css. a and d have a no-repeat image, whereas c and e have a repeat-y image. In effect, I want the bottom row to be of variable height (pending content in b) and the top row to be fixed.
For my purpose, I need to limit a and d to 44px high. This works very well in FF, but not at all in IE.
I would rather avoid nesting another table in those cells.
Has anyone *any* thought at all? Any help would be greatly appreciated. |
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Corey Bryant
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Joined: 15 May 2004
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Location: Castle Pines North, CO USA
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| Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 3:41 am |
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Just curious - what DOCTYPE are you using? Did you want to use divs instead of tables as well or is this to serve tabular data? You also might want to check out International Web Developers Network |
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vavroom
Joined: 17 Jul 2005
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Location: New Zealand / Aotearoa
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| Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 4:55 am |
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| Corey Bryant wrote: |
| Just curious - what DOCTYPE are you using? |
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
Out of curiousity, I tried removing the doctype entirely, see what happens. The particular issue did not get resolved, and my centered layout got shoved back to the left!
I would MUCH prefer to use only divs for this particular layout, and I usualy do, but I tried getting this particular design to work in CSS, and that went nowhere fast.
I'll see about the IWDN, thanks for the hint. |
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Corey Bryant
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Joined: 15 May 2004
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Location: Castle Pines North, CO USA
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| Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 5:02 am |
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Anytime - they should be able to help you out with the divs etc. I tend to stay away from the height myself just because of some of the issues. They'll be able to help / explain everything!
Good luck! |
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vavroom
Joined: 17 Jul 2005
Posts: 6
Location: New Zealand / Aotearoa
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| Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 5:21 am |
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Having no luck getting the activation email back from them
Oh hummm. |
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vavroom
Joined: 17 Jul 2005
Posts: 6
Location: New Zealand / Aotearoa
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| Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 6:41 pm |
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Got myself activated and logged in and I even figured out the solution. Which was going away from tables entirely 
http://www.becanz.net/testing1/
I do have one issue, perhaps you can help me figure it out, I'm not "seeing" it. The first page that loads is the straightforward page that will load throught the site. the second page loads what actually will be the front page, with an extra area to feature some text.
The third page shows the problem I'm encountering. If I start the main content area with a p, there's no break in FF (as seen in first two pages). If I start with any level of header, then there's a 2px split.
This, for some reason, is not happening in IE!!!
Thoughts? |
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vavroom
Joined: 17 Jul 2005
Posts: 6
Location: New Zealand / Aotearoa
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| Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 3:30 am Fixed! |
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| Got it worked out, after much finaggling |
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