Wil — Mon, 25 Feb 2002 09:24:07 +0000

Yeah, never mind the Javascript error - that's another thread .

THanks for the positive feedback. Will post in the critique forum once completed.

Busy — Sun, 24 Feb 2002 20:26:09 +0000

until layers are accepted more widely, I think the only ral way to do thing like that is with table cells. site looks good (got a javascript error thou)

Wil — Sun, 24 Feb 2002 14:37:22 +0000

Hm. Good idea. Never thought of that one.

Although the way it is setup now, it is absolutely backwards-compatible and will display correctly on most browsers tested on - but your idea sounds much neater.

Here's the URL, FWIW. The column in question is the right hand one with two images, one at the top and one at the bottom.

http://penweddig.fbagroup.co.uk/blue.html

Rgds

Suzanne — Sat, 23 Feb 2002 19:26:28 +0000

Another solution would be to use valign="bottom" for the bottom image and have the top image as a background. In plain HTML you'd need to make the image an insane length (whitespace), however with CSS you can set the background to not repeat, effectively putting it at the top of the cell and the other image at the bottom.

The only drawback would be if the cell was ever not held open far enough by the text in the neighbouring cell.

Less code is usually a better option than more, but you know that!

Suzanne

Wil — Sat, 23 Feb 2002 17:17:09 +0000

I figured out how to overcome my dilema. I created another outer table, and used ROWSPAN to controll the layout of the special cell.