[thelist] IE6 problems

rudy r937 at interlog.com
Sat Nov 30 16:42:01 CST 2002


> http://benediction.blogs4god.com/
> I've tried a number of ways to make the side-menu
> valign: top but it doesn't seem to.

hi rachel

you have two cells on the left side, in two rows, with the main content in a
ROWSPAN=2

some browsers will determine the height of the two rows by a calculation on
the entire table height

if you want everything in the sidebar near the top, simply eliminate the
second row, and put everything that's in the sidebar into one cell

however, since you have some other stuff going on with separate TD IDs for
benediction and links, it might be safer just to keep them in separate
cells, within a nested table, rather than try to blend the css properties,
whatever they may be

change this --

<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr><td id="benediction" height="130">...</td>
       <td id="content" rowspan="2">...</td></tr>
<tr><td id="links" valign="top">...</td></tr>
<tr><td>&nbsp;</td>
       <td style="padding-left:15px;">
       <img alt="Canadian Loon" ...</td></tr>
</table>

to this --

<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr><td valign="top">
          <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
          <tr><td id="benediction">...</td></tr>
          <tr><td id="links">...</td></tr>
          </table>
      </td>
      <td id="content">...</td></tr>
<tr><td>&nbsp;</td>
       <td style="padding-left:15px;">
       <img alt="Canadian Loon" ...</td></tr>
</table>

note you have moved valign="top" from the links cell to the cell that holds
the nested table

you now have sidebar nested table and content, two cells in one row

> Also, the text seems to not display properly as you scroll.

no idea

rudy




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