Posted by dorayme on 07/24/07 07:55

In article <slrnfab9l7.td2.spamspam@bowser.marioworld>,
Ben C <spamspam@spam.eggs> wrote:

> 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).

Yes. I mean no, I won't rely on this sort of thing. It turns out
that the _biggest_ problem I have is when there are only two rows
of details and a pic in a col that spans them. In Safari only, it
looks absurd - the only saving grace being it is not
unintelligible. After I have done all the substantial details on
the section I am working on, I will return to this issue.

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dorayme

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