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puddingsmith ([personal profile] hope) wrote2005-05-06 09:54 am
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a cry for HTML help into the void omggggG!1

you know when you're doing tables and if somethings bigger in, say, the first column, the adjustment the second column will make will be to put whatever's smaller in the second column into the middle of it? instead of the top?

and you know how you fix it by nesting tables and putting a row at the bottom of the nested table in each td with its height="100%" so that it nudges everything else up to the top, regardless of which column has taller content?

well. WHY THE FRICK DOESN'T THIS WORK IN FIREFOX? i've even tried putting a transparent image file with height="100%" on it into the tr, but it still doesn't work. firefox doesn't seem to like to recognise the percentages when it comes to tables like this. it looks/works fine in IE.

HELP.

eta: okay, absolute positioning via css seems to be working for it. o_O is absolute positioning tetchy in firefox for anyone else? why was i under the impression that it was?
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[identity profile] danachan.livejournal.com 2005-05-06 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
how about putting align=top in the td thing. It could be valign, I'm too tired to go check and be certain. But it's one or the other.
hope: Art of a woman writing from tour poster (i'm gay and bashful - only not.)

[personal profile] hope 2005-05-06 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
i just tried align and valign in various places with still no luck :/

[identity profile] danachan.livejournal.com 2005-05-06 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
Bah. Well, I'll poke about and see if I can figure something out. *stabs firefox with stabby hate*

[identity profile] idiosyncratic.livejournal.com 2005-05-06 12:26 am (UTC)(link)
That's weird. My journal is set up using nested tables, and I use Firefox, but everything lines up exactly where I want it using the <td valign="top" etcetcetc> tag for the cells. Is it a graphic or text that you're trying to get to line up at the top?
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[identity profile] cupiscent.livejournal.com 2005-05-06 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
I always use valign=top in the TR tag. Not the TD, but the TR. It's aways seemed to work, but I've never wrestled with Firefox.
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[personal profile] ancalime8301 2005-05-06 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
is absolute positioning tetchy in firefox for anyone else?

omg, yes. >_< I'm working on a site for a class project, and that part is vexing me greatly...

[identity profile] sophrosyne31.livejournal.com 2005-05-06 02:51 pm (UTC)(link)
just reading all those big words on my flist scared me. you are scary smart, girl.

*remains perplexed by words like 'nesting'*
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