specify width for different resolutions

[y2k1981]

Hi All,

Is it possible to use css to specify the width of a table to be 680px if the user reso is 800*600, but to be 100% if it's greater than 800*600 without using javascript?

This is a one file written in HTML (which contains all it's css internally) that I'll be e-mailing to somebody, I know that I could use document.write after detecting the users resolution, but they could disable javascript and I don't want to force them to enable it, seing that they don't need to. so I wondered if I could somehow do it without javascript? Is it mission impossible ???

Thanks
Martin

 

[RISTMO]

AAAAAAAh! I know there should be an incredibly simple solution to this, but it's totally not coming to me....I think that if this "incredibly simple solution" isn't so simple, you're stuck . I haven't heard of any fool-proof ways to do that without javascript.

Rick

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[ChrisHunt]

Don't really understand why you'd want to do this. If what you really want is to force the table to be no less than 680px wide, use a spacer gif:
[tt]
<table width=&quot;100%&quot;>
<tr><td><img src=&quot;/images/spacer.gif&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; width=&quot;680&quot; /></td></tr>
... Rest of table in here ...
</table>
[/tt]
Either design your site for a fixed width, or (preferably) don't. Trying to do both at once is just making unnecessary work for yourself.

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[RISTMO]

I think that this was for an email, if I understood correctly. And yes, that was the fix that I was thinking of. Make the width 100% and stick a spacer image in there to maintain a minimum width.

Rick

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[EdwardMartinIII]

y2k1981, if this is for an HTML e-mail, may my tiny voice beg you to consider simply uploading an HTML page to a website and then e-mailing a small bit of text including a link? It saves on bandwidth, plus allows you to use your web stats to show who visits you and how effective your e-mail actually is.

I may be unusual in that I have my e-mail set to only send text and when I see something coming in that's HTML, if I don't immediately recognize it as from-well-known-friend, then I delete it, usually before it has a chance to download all that content that I'm sure someone thought was wonderful.

small-voiced,


Edward

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