Re: Validating a page with W3.org

In article <slrnfaaa9l.l10.spamspam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Ben C <spamspam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 2007-07-23, dorayme <doraymeRidThis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <he%oi.10846$4A1.4015@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"rf" <rf@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

dorayme, where are you now?

Generally buried in work with deadlines, specifically grappling
with a table whose rows will not even roughly be height evened.

(Know anything about getting a table to be this and nicely enough
cross browser? Have not a clue what I am talking about? Why not?
Are you refusing to imagine my problem? Is the call for a url
welling up in your brain? There is a ruddy great picture of an
item in a left column that spans 7 rows, and the 7 rows of
remaining columns are just very short text and number strings but
the last row of these latter takes up about 3/4 of the space.
Looks ugly while being semantically beautiful.

I tried this and it comes out OK in most browsers, but not Konqueror,
aka Safari, in which the first few rows get their content height and the
last one gets the rest, which sounds like what you're describing.


You are not wrong. I have been looking in Safari and when it
looks right there, I move on to other browsers. Even a martian
has to start somewhere. <g>

If you don't know the height of the big item on the left then I don't
know what you can do about that.

Rowspan and colspan make table formatting much more complicated than it
would otherwise be, so it might be more predictable to use nested
tables, and there is an easy solution there if you know the height of
the left item.


Funny you should mention this! I just finished roughly this
tactic (as you go on to describe) on one of the many tables I
have to do and it sort of solved the problem. (I don't quite know
the height of the cell with the pic as it has a tiny bit of html
text underneath. I tried for the inner table:

<table style="width:100%;height:100%">

And this took up the space fine in Safari.

But I have an uncomfortable feeling about it. The site I am
updating has been moving slowly for years in a certain simpler
and better direction and this takes it a step backwards into
complexity. But if it has to be, it has to be. I might have to
take the pics out of the table and float them left next to a then
easy to manage regular table (there is a small complication that
stops me rushing to this solution but I won't bore you with the
details)

Thanks, Ben, for the input.

--
dorayme
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