[thelist] a blonde table question

Aylard JA (James) jaylard at equilon.com
Wed Nov 22 14:51:43 CST 2000


Sam-I-Am,

> It works well for most but not all browsers. In particular NN6 ignores
> my height attributes, so far. 

	That's because "height" is a valid HTML 4 attribute only on the <td>
and <th> elements, as far as tables are concerned (and it's deprecated for
both of those). For Netscape 6, however, this would be an excellent
opportunity to use the "fixed" value for the CSS "position" attribute, which
would allow you to maintain your bottom table at a constant position in the
browser window, regardless of scrolling (much like using frames).
Unfortunately, not even IE 5.5 supports position: fixed, so some kind of
browser detection would be necessary.

hth,
James Aylard




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