On 1/4/07, Kenneth Downs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi folks,
A helpful HTML guru has given me the solution to my height-dont-work
problem in IE 6.
The guru is.... (drumroll) Tom Melendez of LIPHP fame. He pointed out
that changing the document type declaration to "quirks" mode makes IE
work, instantly fixing the problem.
For completeness, here is a simplified snipeet that illustrates the
fixed situation:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<style>
html, body {
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
margin: 0px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<center>
<table cellspacing=0
style="width: 500px; height: 100%;">
<tr><td style="height: 100px" bgcolor=red>a </td></tr>
<tr><td>hello </td></tr>
<tr><td style="height: 100px" bgcolor=blue>b </td></tr>
</table>
</center>
</body>
I don't mean to be picky, but if you post a 'solution' then it ought
to be or attempt to be syntactically correct. The simple snippet
above gets lazy about quoting attributes, ending semi-colons and the
type attribute is even missing from the <style> tag not to mention a
missing </html> tag. Your point is made about doctype declarations,
but the code example would lead a newbie to believe that tag soup is
acceptable to 'gurus'. All I had to do to produce the version below
was run it through tidy -im -ashtml /tmp/tmp.html
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta name="generator" content=
"HTML Tidy for Linux/x86 (vers 1 September 2005), see www.w3.org">
<style type="text/css">
html, body {
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
margin: 0px;
}
</style>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<center>
<table cellspacing="0" style="width: 500px; height: 100%;">
<tr>
<td style="height: 100px" bgcolor="red">a</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>hello</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="height: 100px" bgcolor="blue">b</td>
</tr>
</table>
</center>
</body>
</html>
hth,
Greg
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