Posted by Ben C on 07/24/07 07:14

On 2007-07-24, dorayme <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> In article
><doraymeRidThis-A46550.10405024072007@news-vip.optusnet.com.au>,
> dorayme <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>
>> <table style="width:100%;height:100%">
>>
>> And this took up the space fine in Safari.
>
> But not in any other Mac browser I have! (a late discovery). I
> will post a url and choose a new thread and topic if needs be.

The problem is it's a percentage height of an auto height container.

You might get away with it if you also set style="height: 100%" on the
td containing the nested table. And sometimes Firefox makes more effort
with this kind of thing in quirks mode.

But you don't want to rely on that kind of thing. Nothing changes the
circularity that the space available to that nested table depends on the
height of the nested table itself (as well as on the stuff on the left,
which in your case in the limiting factor).

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