Dumb HTML question
I must be dumb. It's been awhile since I had to fix a problem like this.
Here is how I want this site to be laid out:
http://www.alogical.com/wbmstr/
except... the gif at the lower left is a placeholder. What I really want is a cell or a table here that will stretch out to fill the vertical space and push the nested table holding the navigation and the breaking news up to the top. A tag to push it up would be OK.
Here is how it looks without the temporary gif:
http://www.alogical.com/wbmstr/index2.html
Dang, I can't remember if I knew how to do this or the tags or browsers changed...
Thanks in advance.
cordedpoodle posted this at 22:20 — 9th October 2003.
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Right now it only displays correctly above the footer on iExp/Mac 0S9.
Busy posted this at 02:42 — 10th October 2003.
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I didn't look at your code, but in the td cell of the navagation add valign="top" and all should be fine.
cordedpoodle posted this at 04:13 — 10th October 2003.
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Thanks busy that did the trick.
I'm using Dreamweaver and for some reason they either didn't add that option to the GUI editor. I knew that perameter way down deep in my aging brain but couldn't remember it and I wasn't sure it would validate but it does.
Thanks a bunch. I was thinking I might use a small flash movie that will resize itself to keep the site looking full but that's another day.
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Suzanne posted this at 15:27 — 10th October 2003.
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If you're using CSS, and all your td cells need to be vertically aligned to the top position, this saves a boatload of code:
td { vertical-align: top; }
It also works pretty well everywhere (other options for vertical-align are not as well supported in older browsers, but top works just dandy).
cordedpoodle posted this at 00:48 — 5th November 2003.
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td { vertical-align: top; }
I was wondering if you could give me a simple example of how you would set this up in a seperate .css file and in a nested table? If you have a few minutes? Thanks. Just got around to trying it.
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cordedpoodle posted this at 16:56 — 10th October 2003.
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cool!
thanks Suzanne, that will help. my clients target demographic use all sorts of boxes
JeevesBond posted this at 17:40 — 10th October 2003.
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Have you thought of moving over to XHTML/CSS for everything...I'm just getting my head around it at the moment and it's great! Unlike tables tags were made specifically for layout.
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cordedpoodle posted this at 22:43 — 10th October 2003.
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I've looked at XHTML a little. I don't know. I think I'm like a lot of people. I already know about 20 apps and I'm now going into server administration and Final Cut Pro. I can't seem to keep up with everything. It's a rat race.
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Megan posted this at 14:05 — 5th November 2003.
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This option is there in Dreamweaverl. It's hidden in the bottom section of the properties palette. Use the little arrow in the bottom right corner to show the bottom section. There's a drop-down there for "horiz" and "vert". Also a lot of other important options there.
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