[thelist] Percentage values in <TABLE> and <TD> tags?

Katherine Spice k.spice at acu.ac.uk
Mon Jul 10 12:37:30 CDT 2000


Try quoting the value - <TD WIDTH="50%"> - I'm guessing but I think that
may get rid of the error.

Katherine

Greg Strange wrote:
> 
> I trust everyone had a wonderful weekend.
> 
> I am having a new page validated (thanks for the tip!) and it gives me only
> two errors.  They are exactly the same.  They are:
> 
> <TD WIDTH=50%>
>               ^
> 
> Error: an attribute value must be a literal unless it contains only name
> characters
> 
> I thought we could declare a percentage value in these tags.  Can we not?
> If not, how are we to do the liquidity thing on our tables?  Or am I missing
> something?  I am using these two <TD WIDTH=50%> tags to make the cells
> expand or contract on either side of the real content depending on the
> resolution.




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