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 Posted by John on 02/27/06 01:11 
Thanks to all who have got back to me on this. 
 
I'm going to have a go at using the "DIV" tag stuff as suggested. I'm also  
going to look the websites mentioned- I've also changed a few other things  
as suggested. 
 
Many thanks 
 
John 
"Andy Dingley" <dingbat@codesmiths.com> wrote in message  
news:lsb302pkmedpepotc8cg9up6lpri8qiiht@4ax.com... 
> On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 23:03:04 -0000, "John" 
> <john@johndouglas.demon.co.uk> wrote: 
> 
>>Hi all - wonder if you can help? I have put together avery simple site at 
>>www.johndouglas.demon.co.uk. I have used css. 
> 
> Mainly you've mis-used a table to control layout. This is a bad thing 
> generally, and you're actually getting caught by one of the specific bad 
> instances about it. 
> 
> Tables are dynamic content-driven things, not rigidly sized. So when you 
> then tried to control their sizes by setting the _overall_ size, they 
> still jiggle about internally. It's trying to take its overall fixed 
> height and partitiion it according to how the content fills it. 
> 
> I suggest you abandon this table-based layout and use a proper CSS-based 
> one. This is harder to write, but you can download one from glish.com 
> bluerobot.com and others. 
> 
> If you insist on using tables, then set the height of the top row (which 
> you care about) and let the overall height float free, according to what 
> the content needs to fill it. 
> 
> Also replace   font-family: "Arial";  with 
> font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; 
> and   font-size:18pt;  with   font-size:180%; 
> 
> Oh, and throw away FrontPlague. It's awful.
 
  
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