Posted by richard on 01/14/08 04:54

On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 10:01:02 -0500, "Jonathan N. Little"
<lws4art@centralva.net> wrote:

>richard wrote:
>> On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 20:52:27 +0200, Jarkko Kuoppamäki
>> <jarkko.kuoppamaki@gmail.nospamplease.com.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> I have a table consisting of a rowspan=3 cell and three normal size
>>> cells on top of each other, on the left side of the first one. If the
>>> tall one grows (due to its content) vertically let's say double, the
>>> height of other 3 cells double, too. I would need two of those to stay
>>> as they were and the last one to grow 4 times its height. How do I
>>> accomplish this?
>>>
>>> I've tried the height parameter of the cell (<td>) or the css defition.
>>> However, this (I believe) defines only the minimum height that will
>>> expand if the contents so require.
>>>
>>> The doctype is 4.01 Transitional, but I guess it could be changed if
>>> needed. A solution compatible with all browsers would be ideal, most
>>> browsers sufficient and if nothing else fails, I'd be willing to accept
>>> even a IE-only compatible one.
>>>
>>> To illustrate:
>>>
>>> <table border=1>
>>> <tr>
>>> <td>cell2</td>
>>> <td rowspan=3><div style="height:300px">cell1</div></td>
>>> </tr>
>>> <td>cell3</td>
>>> </tr>
>>> <td>cell4</td>
>>> </tr>
>>> </table>
>
>> One solution might be to use two tables side by side.
>> That way, the adjacent cell won't react to what the growing cell does.
>> Unless your table is much more complicated than shown, try using pure
>> divisions instead of a table format.
>
>Or not use a table at all since it is most likely not tabular data.
>
>The ol' "Why is it so hard to drive nails with this screwdriver" question.

How would you know unless you saw the data presented?
He was asking a legitimate question on the usage of tables. Not what
was going into it.
There are possibilities of having tabular data expand in one cell but
not others.

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