Posted by pecan on 05/21/06 10:33

"danielhoin" <danielhoin@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1148065086.517056.113800@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> I am making a table with pictures that need to be a certain way for
> content and alignment to allow for stretching. My problem is that I
> have a table section that has three cells, two in the left column and
> one in the right.
>
> The first row has a small cell (1) first (this cannot stretch) and
> then my content cell (2) with a rowspan of 2 which needs to stretch
> vertically.
>
> The second row has a tall cell (3) that should stretch vetically with
> the content cell.
>
> The problem is that BOTH left column cells expand in relation to
> content in the right. I have tried max-height, making cell 3 height
> 100%, and FYI this is in a master page content place holder.
>
> 1 2
> ------------------------
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> ------------------------
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> 3
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> -----------------------
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> -----------------------
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> -----------------------
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> -----------------------
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> -----------------------
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>

Try using colspan and rowspan. First block has colspan 1 and rowspan 1,
second block has colspan 1 and rowspan 2. Third block (which is in the
second row, if I understand you correctly) needs colspan 1 and rowspan 1.
Then if you fix the size of the first block, the others will sloy into
place.

CM

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