Preserved Topic: netscape issues with tables (Page 1 of 1)

This is about to drive me nuts.

I simply cannot make these tables align properly in netscape 6 and below. 7 is fine. Here is the link:
http://www.lucidigital.com/lookie.htm

Under netscape 6 and below, the left navigation, spacer cell and content cell don't bump up to the top navigation. Under IE and netscape 7, and Opera, and Mozilla, everything is fine.

It almost looks like NS isnt reading the height attributes from the top navigation and the footer, because it makes those cells much larger than the 40 pixels I've specified...

If I remove the HEIGHT attribute from the main table tag, it lines up properly, but then the footer is'nt at the bottom of the page, where I need it to be.

I've colored the top, leftnav and footer all in orange so you can see what is happening better. open in both IE and NS to see what I am talking about.

I'm stuck, so If someone else would be so kind as to take a look, that would be very cool.

Thanks in advance!



RypTide

"Music is the vernacular of the human soul" ~ Geoffrey Latham

simplifying:


3 rows.

Middle row is of variable height.

How do I make the top and bottom stay at the size specified? (40 pixels in this case)

RypTide

"Music is the vernacular of the human soul" ~ Geoffrey Latham

This link may be helpful http://www.nic.fi/~tapio1/Teaching/Netscape.php3

WebShaman, Thanks for the link. I'm sure it will be useful, although I haven't found a solution for my problem yet

Anyone else? Has anyone had this problem before and solved it?



RypTide

"Music is the vernacular of the human soul" ~ Geoffrey Latham

Alright well you definately hit a bug. I cleaned up your code, ripped out the style and JS just to check and posted a "fixed" version here Mainly I ripped out a bunch of unecessary colspan tags and some info in tr tags also closed one unclosed td tag (guaranteed to fuck up NN4). Generally I never put any modifiers in my tr tags. The stuff in your td will do all the work.

Here's the bug normally, if you make a table with 3 row's and a height of 100% and set the height of the top and bottom row's to a fixed size then the middle row will fill the rest of the table to whatever is left over in the window height, whether or not you set a height to the middle row. Setting the middle cell height to 100% as you have is not needed but should do the samething as setting it to nothing. Apparently though without setting the height of the middle NN6 is fucking up the rows. Setting it to 100% will make the middle 100% the height of the browser window and then add the pixel height on top of that.

Can't do much about it but the "fixed" version I posted should workable even though it will scroll when it shouldn't



.:[ Never resist a perfect moment ]:.

bitdamaged -

Thanks for having a look.

I did notice that I have to set the middle row's height, or the alignment of the center cell didn't work.

That probably has something to do with the includes I have on the page on the real site, because your stripped down html works fine...

Either way, It fixed my problem. I can deal with the scrolling.

RypTide

"Music is the vernacular of the human soul" ~ Geoffrey Latham