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Wow this is such a newb question

Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 7:25 pm
by Fusion
ok dont laugh, but I cant get my table to go down the whole page! Heirght="100%" does not work! I was wondering if there ias a php way, or if someone could help me if there isnt...

omg im such a newb lol

Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 8:02 pm
by Chris Corbyn
Table heights are a funny thing. The W3C who set out guidelines for HTML do not want table heights to be a dynamic property since they did not want tables to be used for layouts. Just for data representation.

Of course, this is a pain for us web developers ;-) Height="100%" doesn't work but height="500" would do.

You can use javascript to get the screen size an take it from there but i'd steer clear, use pixels ;-)

Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 10:44 pm
by Fusion
Yea that would work, except my website has articles, every article is different length, therefore each page is an unspecified length.

Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 10:58 pm
by ianlandsman
I'm not sure how much flexibility you have, but you could consider modifying your design somewhat to use a cascading background image. If done right this can give the perception that a design flows to the bottom of the page.

Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 11:43 pm
by Fusion
no, the bg is just 2 px X 2px

Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 11:47 pm
by feyd
I'd suggest making the tile a bit bigger, as at that size, it'll take a while for some browsers to render such a small tile over such a large area.

Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 12:45 am
by AGISB
This is a pain in the ass as some browsers show it correctly and some don't.

Opera does freak me in the moment because it doesn't even display the width=100% correctly. Cracks my design of a page that works with every resolution > 800x600 .

It seems to me that you simply have to rely on scrolling when height is involved.

Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 1:51 am
by Fusion
omg just make my bg that image and it will cover what the table does not.ROFFL told you i was a newm lol.