table properties

Sticky · Post by **Sticky** » Thu 5. Aug 2004, 05:05

for my left side I have a table in there with heigth set to 100% and a colored left edge.
However when ever my main page area content is longer than the navigation menu is the left side does not completly extend to the bottom of the page . i.e. the left side height is only as long as the nav menu is.
How can I fix this?

Ben · Post by **Ben** » Thu 5. Aug 2004, 05:20

Please post a url where we can see this problem. Also, just to clarify, are you referring to a table in a template or in an article?

Sticky · Post by **Sticky** » Thu 5. Aug 2004, 12:13

Here iswhat is going on.
Hope this image helps.

TIA

Danny

Plauderer · Post by **Plauderer** » Thu 5. Aug 2004, 13:47

The height attribute in percentage was deleted in HTML v4.0! So as long as you use the DTD for HTML4.0 or XHTML this won't work.

A workaround would be to use HTML3.1 in your DTD!

Hope that helps,
Plauderer

evan · Post by **evan** » Thu 5. Aug 2004, 21:36

This is a shortcoming of CSS in general. There's no reliable way to make a block element always fill 100% of the document in all browsers. An incredibly simple workaround is to just make a background image of a line and put it on the body.

Sticky · Post by **Sticky** » Fri 6. Aug 2004, 01:18

Perfecto, Perfect, Great, Fantastic

Needless to say, it worked fine.
the simple things in life is what I miss most.

Sticky