gavin681 — Thu, 02 Aug 2001 15:47:51 +0000

>>I can't remember the URL for Docky's site (your version) .... <<

http://www.advancedwebsitepromotion.com/bonafide.htm

>>You can 'untie' the sidebar from the table by making a background image that is your sidebar plus enough white space to fill even the biggest screens. 1600px wide should do it, then use that as the BODY background.<<

I like to stay away from background images as they slow download time. In fact I try to use cell and table colors as much as possible. Isn't there anything I could do with the tables?

Gavin

AndyB — Thu, 02 Aug 2001 14:56:33 +0000

I can't remember the URL for Docky's site (your version) ....

You can 'untie' the sidebar from the table by making a background image that is your sidebar plus enough white space to fill even the biggest screens. 1600px wide should do it, then use that as the BODY background.

You can safely delete the height="xxx" from the html table tags.

gavin681 — Thu, 02 Aug 2001 14:36:08 +0000

Thanks Suzanne and AndyB,

I got rid of:

Seems to have removed the space at the bottom.

>>The length of the sidebar is tied to the table, so the length of the table determines the length of the sidebar.<<

How can I untie the sidebar from the table? Can this be done?

>> Get rid of all those references to height="xxx" in the TABLE tags. Tables take their height from the content.<<

Should I just delete the height measures in the HTML?

>> Buy the pro version. It will significantly help you with troubleshooting.<<

Thanks. I didn't know there was a pro version.

Gavin

Suggestion

Suzanne — Wed, 01 Aug 2001 20:41:50 +0000

htmlvalidator.com

Buy the pro version. It will significantly help you with troubleshooting.

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Otherwise, you're missing the closing tag, you have a few nesting errors, a tag without an opening one, and no alt attribute in your images.

The space at the bottom is the empty paragraph. Looks like this:

<p><br>
<br>
</p>

The length of the sidebar is tied to the table, so the length of the table determines the length of the sidebar.

As you have a very complex table layout (for no good reason), this becomes more complex than need be.

Suzanne

AndyB — Wed, 01 Aug 2001 20:33:40 +0000

Get rid of all those references to height="xxx" in the TABLE tags. Tables take their height from the content.

Get rid of the at the end of the code - all it does is create balnk space .... unless that's what you want.

Debugging table code is much easier if you (temporarily) set every table border="1" - then you can see the page/table structure much more easily. Often that points towards the problem/solution.