thanks for all the replies

hawkins786 — Mon, 03 Jan 2005 00:01:39 +0000

Hi everybody

Renegade i changed your code around a little bit:

Width=25%, height=20%

Width=50%, height=20%

Width=25%, height=20%

Width=50%, height=50%

Width=100%, height=30%

works great! Thanks so much, you saved me a lot of messing about!

Renegade — Sun, 02 Jan 2005 09:52:26 +0000

I gave it a try, you'll want to use at least two tables.

What I did is found below:

<html>
	<head>
		<title>Re: Simple table layout</title>
	</head>
	<body>
		<table width="100%" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
			<tr>
				<td width="25%">&nbsp;</td>
				<td width="50%">&nbsp;</td>
				<td width="25%">&nbsp;</td>
			</tr>
			<tr>
				<td colspan="3" width="100%">	
					<table width="100%" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
						<tr>
							<td width="50%">&nbsp;</td>
							<td width="50%">&nbsp;</td>
						</tr>
					</table>
				</td>
			</tr>
			<tr>
				<td colspan="3" width="100%">&nbsp;</td>
			</tr>
		</table>
	</body>
</html>

Busy — Sun, 02 Jan 2005 09:22:04 +0000

You have to use two tables for the top two cells, unless you add another row on top and give it four cells (all of the lower ones). The lower tables need a base, in this case it is three columns, you can't split 3 into 1.5 with tables, can only split into whole numbers - 2-1, 3, 1, 1-2

While browsers understand width="100%" not all understand height="100%" because a page has no real height (it scrolls). Using height=" less than 100% " is even worse as it has no base to set itself from. If you set an outer table to a fixed height you can (but shouldn't) set the percentage heights.

Tables still have to be loaded but it does it faster these days so isn't noticed like it was many versions ago.

Abhishek Reddy — Sun, 02 Jan 2005 05:23:39 +0000

Firstly, the point of a scrollbar is to accommodate overflow. Why do you want to limit your content to the window frame? Secondly, it's hard to get height to work reliably.

Widths are a little easier to deal with. Try as Megan suggests and use three tables.

Megan — Sun, 02 Jan 2005 02:35:55 +0000

Try using three separate tables instead of one big table. This way you'll get better control over the widths. It may also help with downloading because some browsers need to download an entire table before they can display any part of it**

** Is this still true? Or was it just a Netscape problem?