TD Heights and Autostretch

chinagreenelvis · Joined: 15 Feb 2008 Posts: 4

I'm trying to figure out why my page displays correctly in Firefox but incorrectly in IE.

The URL is http://www.maryhates.com/test.php

Thanks.

Corey Bryant · Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 6:04 am

You might consider less tables. You have

chinagreenelvis · Joined: 15 Feb 2008 Posts: 4

Nope. That table is in the second <tr> tag, not the first. Even when I remove the #left table, the top and bottom table rows fail to display at their intended heights. Again, this is only in IE. I have yet to look at it in Netscape.

http://www.maryhates.com/test.php

madprof · Joined: 26 Jan 2008 Posts: 98

Try putting <td height="100%"> in your middle row.

Seems to work in IE 7.

chinagreenelvis · Joined: 15 Feb 2008 Posts: 4

In IE6 it makes the middle TD the height of the browser window, pushing the table off the page and forcing you to scroll down to see the bottom. Does it not do this in IE7?

chinagreenelvis · Joined: 15 Feb 2008 Posts: 4

I checked it out in IE7 and the middle TD behaves the same way as in IE6.

I guess the only solution I have is to do things the old school way, the way that works best, and that's to say, "screw you, doctype..."

Corey Bryant · Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 3:52 pm

Unfortunately it has been a long time since I did do anything with tables. But check out International Web Developers Network for maybe some ideas / ways around it.

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madprof · Joined: 26 Jan 2008 Posts: 98

The real solution should be not to use tables at all but use CSS.
I assume that the footer here is to go at the bottom of the page even if there is no scrollbar, so when content does not fill the full height of the middle area the footer just stays down. In that case then yes I think you do have to keep the browser in quirks mode, which is a real pain for some things (like consistency between browsers!).