Table Cell Alignment Question

[bitwise]

Here's a simple example to illustrate my question. Say you have this table...

<table border=1>
<tr>
<td valign=top>text1</td>
<td rowspan=2>text2 text2 text2 text2 text2 text2 text2 text2 text2 text2 text2 text2 text2 text2 text 2 text2 text2 text2 text2 text2 text2 text2</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td valign=top>text3</td>
</tr>
</table>

Notice the rowspan=2 on the "text2" table. My only question is, how can you keep the text3 table cell to stay under the text1 table cell? They are both "valign=top", but if you shrink the table via browser resize, then the text1 and text3 both simply use 50% height. I want text3 to stay under text1 completely. Obviously, this is for a larger problem, but the simply table above illustrates the same thing. Thank you!

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

How is the cell containing "text3" never underneath the cell containing "text1"?

I tried in IE 6, IE 7, and Fx 2, and it was never not underneath.

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[bitwise]

It's always underneath (that's not the problem). The problem is that I would like "text3" to stay immediately under "text1" all the time. If you shrink the browser window or something, or add more text to "text2" you'll notice that "text3" will start to move down as the browser moves the cells. The height of the cell "text1" and "text3" will begin to be 50% each.

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Why not put it in the same cell, then?

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[vacunita]

Try giving your text1 cell a fixed height.

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[mscallisto]

Please ignore this post if necessary (I'm still a novice) but can it have anything to do with the space in one of your text2's or was this simply an example?

text2 text2 text 2