[thelist] How important is height when using tables?

[Andy Budd]

Johnson, Christopher (MTO) wrote:

> Just a quick question that I have been wondering about for the last few
> days. When design a site using tables for the layout, how important is 
> it to
> state a table and/or cell height? Is there any speed gained in telling 
> the
> browser the height of a cell versus not when it comes to rendering a 
> table?
> Is there underlying reason to leave the height attribute off when 
> working
> with tables?

The only thing I would say is that tables don't have a height attribute 
in HTML, so whatever you're building isn't strictly speaking HTML.

Andy Budd

http://www.message.uk.com/