Posted by dorayme on 01/11/08 00:13

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NvrBst <nvrbst@gmail.com> wrote:

> This is probably a basic question but seems to be hard for me to find.
>
> How do you tell a cell to take up all the vertical space it can? (By
> default the 1st cell does it but I want the 3rd to). style="height:
> 100%;" doesn't work and can't find a "vertical-align:justify;"
> option. Below is what my table looks like.
>
> 1 2
> 3 4
> 5 6
>
> 1/3/5 are all merged with rowspan=2. Cell 2 has to fit its data.
> Cell 4 has to be right under Cell 2 always. I want Cell 6 to take up
> any extra room with blank space so that Cell 1 or 4 arn't stretched
> (Cell 4 has special background).
>
>
> Note:
> 1 2
> 3 4
>
> This situation would also be fine (1/3 merged). It works the way I
> want it to when Cell 2 is higher than the data in 1/3. But when data
> in Cell 2 is small then Cell 2 gets stretched which I'd like to
> advoid.
>


Excuse me while I pray:

Dearest God Almighty, greatest of all HTML authors, Please make a
subscriber who has a complicated question supply a f*ing url.
thank you.

PS. And wipe all those tut tuts from the faces of your most
faithful servants.

--
dorayme

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