Suzanne — Wed, 18 Dec 2002 16:12:07 +0000

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth relates to the fact that when buying a horse, you check its quality by examining, among other things, its teeth. So if you look a gift horse in the mouth, you're rudely examining the quality of a gift.

http://search.netscape.com/redir.adp?appname=MS&query=dont%2blook%2ba%2bgift%2bhorse%2bin%2bthe%2bmouth&url=http%3a%2f%2fwww%2ehalfbakery%2ecom%2fidea%2fModern%5f20Aphorisms&datasource=Google&partner=Google&clickedItemRank=3&requestId=cns66401&component=websearch.google.http.tcl&searchType=MS&clickedItemType=MS&brand=NSCP&query=dont%2blook%2ba%2bgift%2bhorse%2bin%2bthe%2bmouth&view=nscp_portal&channel=nscp_portal&source=NSCPRedirect&invocationType=-

As for the question, you had a pile of typos in your post explaining you were going to look for typos...

fifeclub — Wed, 18 Dec 2002 16:07:04 +0000

huh?

I did a bunch of fiddling last night but none of it dealt with the main table's height problem in IE6 (the reason for this thread). Yet I checked IE6 today and unless I'm crazy, the table height is opening up as I wanted. Great, but that just freaks me out when I don't know what caused the change. Oh well, don't look a gift horse in the mouth (for whatever that dumb saying means).

Abhishek Reddy — Wed, 18 Dec 2002 01:40:43 +0000

Quote: I'm double ~~cecking~~ everything to make sure it's ~~now~~ a misspelling or something simple.

Heh, that's too ironic.

fifeclub — Tue, 17 Dec 2002 16:30:22 +0000

Quote: Originally posted by Busy
your layout crashes NS4.7 btw

Yeah. I'm looking into that mystery. I may end up posting about it if I can't figure it out. The bigger mystery besides why it crashes in NS4.7 is the fact that that page should never have loaded in the first place. I've got a script that says 'if NS4, load a different safe page' that should work perfectly but it's failing somewhere. I'm double cecking everything to make sure it's now a misspelling or something simple.

Busy — Tue, 17 Dec 2002 09:06:50 +0000

Murphys law huh

Nice little gismo, the tabs take a while to switch thou.

If it's the grey table, make it a fixed height image or use a clear image, using height in tables has different effect on different browsers due to how they deal with blank space (and if font size surrounds it)

your layout crashes NS4.7 btw

fifeclub — Tue, 17 Dec 2002 05:24:19 +0000

Great timing on my part. My host servers went down just as I posted last and they were down for about four hours. But it's back now and those links should work now

Busy — Mon, 16 Dec 2002 22:29:48 +0000

you shouldn't use height=100% on anything, especially in tables, the browser dosn't know what to gauge it on, 100% of what? 100% of the table size? and the table size is 100% of what, 100%? so you have 100% of 100% of nothing fixed, but if that table is nested it could be 100% of 100% of the outer table height, maybe it's 100% of the screen size, but is the screen size maximised? if it's not it can't change (NS can) if the window is resized as it's a static page ... - confused?

that link (both) can't be found

fifeclub — Mon, 16 Dec 2002 19:32:42 +0000

Quote: Originally posted by Suzanne
You can hinge the table differently so it is held open by another row or cell. It's hard to tell with such a small snip (for me) -- the source or an url would be much better.

I'm not sure what you mean, but here's the url from above if you want to see all the code. http://www.mikesussman.com/mikepatty.php

Suzanne — Mon, 16 Dec 2002 18:45:06 +0000

You can hinge the table differently so it is held open by another row or cell. It's hard to tell with such a small snip (for me) -- the source or an url would be much better.

Also, you should, when using CSS, move as much as possible into the CSS. And quote your attribute values. That will save you oodles of grief rather than mix and matching HTML and CSS within the HTML code.