[thelist] Table Troubles

aardvark roselli at earthlink.net
Tue Apr 23 20:43:00 CDT 2002


> From: "Chris" <axe at suburbia.com.au>
[...]
> If you have a look at http://members.evolt.org/axelr8/test/ you will
> see what I am trying to accomplish, however I am not happy with how I
> got it to work. If you click the 'Gamma Cell' link you should see the
> problem I am talking about.
>
> What seems to be happening is that the 'content' table cell, as it
> becomes larger, is making the navigation table cells too high. The
> only way I have been able to stop this from happening is by specify a
> large height value for the 'gamma cell', which works, but also makes
> the page very long (as you can see from the first page).
>
> Is there a more elegant way of doing this?

it's the spans... your nav is in the same table as the content... the content
spans the nav rows, and tries to make them all even in height... but height
attributes aren't allowed...

so nest a table...

instead of <td rowspan="x"> do:
<td valign="top">
	<table>
	[nav cells]
	</table>
</td>

that should take care of it...




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