Cell Height Problems

[gpalmer711]

I am having a problem with setting cell heights on a template that I am trying to complete at the moment. The basic table code without content is shown below.

  <table border="1" cellspacing="1" width="802" id="AutoNumber1">
    <tr>
      <td width="100%" height="100" colspan="2">&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td width="100%" height="30" colspan="2">&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td width="175" height="75">&nbsp;</td>
      <td width="627" rowspan="3">&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td width="175" height="250">&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td width="175">&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td width="100%" height="10" colspan="2"></td>
    </tr>
  </table>

Heres my problem, on the 3rd row I have 2 columns. The second column spans 3 rows. This works fine with no content in that column.

However if I add content to the second column of row 3 then the 3 rows that it spans do not keep their height sizes.

What I would like to happen is that row 1 and 2 of the spanned rows keep their heights, where as the 3rd row can grow in height.

I hope this makes sense, if not let me know and i'll try and explain better.


Greg Palmer
Free Software for Adminstrators

http://www.palmersoft.co.uk

 

[vongrunt]

No problems in moz... IE doesn't like rowspans used that way.

Can you use valign="top" and divs/tables in a left column instead?

 

[gpalmer711]

Thats a good idea actually, I hadn't thought about nesting another table in the left column.

Greg Palmer
Free Software for Adminstrators

http://www.palmersoft.co.uk