On Jan 31, 2009, at 12:33 PM, Jim Albert wrote: > http://www6.netrition.com/scroll_table_within_table.html > Here I've placed that same scrolling table within a cell of an outer > table. Notice that no scrolling appears. This behavior occurs in > Firefox, IE and Safari. Only in Opera do I see the rendering that I > would like. Opera sees that that middle cell of images is within a > scrolling area and does not render the table with enough room for > all the images. > > What I think is happening is that Firefox, IE and Safari are first > determining table size based on the contents and determines it needs > a lot of width to display all those images. It then assigns 100% of > that very wide 2nd cell which is the table of images for scrolling. > But since enough space was rendered to display all the images, no > scrolling is necessary.
That is the expected behaviour actually, given what css2.1 has to say on tables with 'table-layout:auto;' applied (the default behaviour). > I tried assigning widths to the 1st and 3rd outer cells. However, > that has no affect, the table is still rendered large enough to > display all the images at once. I don't want to assign widths, anyway. If you insist on using a table for the outer layout, you'll have to assign a width to those two cells (you can set it to be a percentage width, though). Then, to insure control over that scrolling object, you have to set the (outer) table to table-layout:fixed and give it a width (e.g. 100%;). Philippe --- Philippe Wittenbergh http://l-c-n.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
