Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: > 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%;).
Yes... I was able to follow your suggestion and produce a workable example at: http://www6.netrition.com/scroll_table_within_table_fixed_layout.html It does do what I asked for and I thank you for your suggestion, but I'll admit I don't care for table-layout:fixed rendering. Depending on the content, there can be considerable occlusion when you start working in large images and nested tables. If the visitor has a large font set on a low resolution display, the result could be a pretty quick exit from that visitor. So... I suppose I don't insist on using an outer table. What would you suggest in terms of my most recent example at: http://www6.netrition.com/scroll_table_within_table_fixed_layout.html to remove the use of the outer table, but maintain 3 columns? Thank you for all your advice. -- Jim Albert ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
