[thelist] Tables and things

[Joel Konkle-Parker]

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Well, I went ahead and tried this solution.

Good news: It worked in Mozilla
Bad news: It completely breaks the site in IE6

Take a look, if you dare.... http://www.ballsome.com

For obvious reasons, I'll be restoring it soon. Looks to me like it's
making the entire table 97% width or whatever instead of just the
article column, even though the table has a contrained px width.

- -joel

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http://www.ballsome.com

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Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 1:21 PM
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Joel,

> So, my question: is there a way to tell it to expand the article
> column to
its
> full potential (or shrink the links column to its minimum for the
> content
it
> contains) without specifying a certain px width?

Yes.

This is not a terribly "proper" way to do things, but:
(1) Use a width="1%" attribute on both your right-hand nav bar td and
your
left-hand graphic td.
(2) Use a width="98%" attribute on your main content td.

This will cause the browser to shrink the left- and right- hand cells
as
much as possible. (Technically, given an arbitrarily high resolution
at
which 1% of the available area was still more than you wanted the
cells to
take up, this could fail.)

Jonathan.

- -----Original Message-----
From: Joel Konkle-Parker [mailto:jjk3 at msstate.edu]
Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 10:59 AM
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: [thelist] Tables and things


I've got an XSLT stylesheet that transforms XML pages into XHTML
pages (but
that's not really important).

As an example, look at:
http://www.ballsome.com/games/software/articles/20020304-1.xml

The entire page is embedded in a big table, as such:

- ----------------------------
|  |<thead> - menus, etc   |
- ----------------------------
|B |                |links||
|a |  <tbody>       |     ||
|l |                |form ||
|l |  4 columns     |     ||
|s |                |copy-||
|o |  article       |right||
|m |  content       |     ||
|e |                |etc  ||
- ----------------------------
|  | <tfoot> - 2 columns   |
- ----------------------------

The entire width of the table is a set px number, but none of the
columns
have
set widths or heights. In most of the pages, the article content is
wide
enough
to wrap around, pushing the links column as narrow as possible with
the
content
it contains. That's the desirable condition.

Now, look at this page:
http://www.ballsome.com/games/games.xml

This has the same layout, except the article column isn't wide enough
to
fill
itself, and it collapses in kind of an ugly fashion.

So, my question: is there a way to tell it to expand the article
column to
its
full potential (or shrink the links column to its minimum for the
content it
contains) without specifying a certain px width?

- -joel
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