table problems

anat,
If I am not mistaken, the only way to resolve your problem would be to assign the images height and width attributes, that way the browser, already allocates the proper amount of space to reserve in your tables.

Adjusting your table's attributes will only effect the table. If the browser doesn't know how big the images are, it can't maintain proper spacing.

Hi anat,

Ken is not mistaken. Why wouldn't you want to put in the height & width? (I'm presuming the images are all of the same dimensions; if I'm wrong, inform pet.com to make them so, or up your rates.) Also, why don't you consider creating the product html dynamically with a for loop? You should be able to preload the products while the rest of the page is loading and display them immediately.

Vinny

Hi Vincent,

I don't think the images are all the same size - but I will check. If I absolutely have to, I guess I'll just check them image by image and change the code that Pets.com generates (I will let them know of the problem - but I don't suppose they'll manage to change the code very fast).

Can you please elaborate about the for loop. I'm assuming it's a Java Script thing? I'm not that good at Java Script but I can give it a try. What does it do?

Thanks!

Anat

Hi anat,

What I meant is something like this:

for (i = 0; i < maxNum ; i++)
document.write("");

However as I was writing it, I noticed the following (edited from the last link you provided):

Dancing With Cats

Why do you have 2 href tags within the cell? (I'm too tired to go back and look through all the code.) You should be able to get away with:

Dancing With Cats

Vinny

Hi,

You're right and it's a mistake. I'll get to fixing it soon. In the first couple of pages I simply copied Amazon's code for the image and then their code for the text link. They don't provide a combined code for some reason. You're perfectly right of course and it's a very simple modification. I have changed it in other books pages like:

http://www.thecatsite.com/shop/bookshumor.html

http://www.thecatsite.com/shop/booksbehavior.html

and others. I'll tidy the codes on the other pages when I get to it - it works just as well, but it does have a messy look...

Thanks!

Anat

Hi anat,

Glad to have been of help. But, what do you mean by messy?

Vinny

You know, the source code works but it bugs the eye when you have double HREF tags when one is perfectly alright.

I like code to have a clean and tidy look, though I often produce messy source codes.

Anat.