[thelist] Re: thelist Digest, Vol 10, Issue 34

[Diane Soini]

I have found, in similar scenarios, that 98% seems to work for IE when 
100% will not. 99% won't work, either. Has to be 98%. And 97% seems too 
small.

On Wednesday, December 17, 2003, at 04:11 AM, 
thelist-request at lists.evolt.org wrote:

>
>> www.craftedsolutions.com/SIC/contact.html
>
>> It is supposed to expand from 800 pixels out, but IE makes the 
>> righthand
>> table cell much larger than necessary.  I have tried several 
>> techniques
>> that have worked on other sites to no avail.  Any ideas?
>
> Norman,
>
> 100% is a tricky width for IE.  It does it's best to calculate 100% of 
> the
> table width based on previous rows and then assign that one cell that 
> width.
> You may notice that the total width of the content of the first row is 
> about
> 770.  The width of the content area is going to be stretched to at 
> least
> 770.
>
> Bad browser?  Maybe--but it's just doing what you asked.
>
> Try using a fixed width for the content column instead of 100%.
>
> Or, better yet, give a tableless design a try.
>
> Best of luck,