At 00:29 +0100 26/2/07, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: >Douglas Fraser wrote: >>http://www.microcinemadvd.com if anyone wants to take a look > >Browsers seems to have problems calculating the left column to be 100% tall. > >A border on the 'height: 99%;' <td> for left column shows that it only >expands as tall as the content pushes it in Safari, Opera and IE/Mac, >and they don't change anything on reload. >Firefox has similar problems, but seems to be able to calculate "a >height" on reload. >All height-values in percentages on nested <table> / <td> are of no use >when parents lack proper height - as browsers see it, as there's nothing to calculate percentage-heights from. >This is a normal problem with heavily nested tables IIRC (it's been a >long time). Such heavy nesting may be valid enough, but it isn't making >it easy for browsers to render as intended.
yes, I understand now... I've tried all sorts of things, but ,,,, and I don't have the time to make everything table-less. a javascript fix is just quicker (to add padding I think). the problem is the main content area is a variable length and so I can't use a fixed number. thanks doug ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
