The simplest way I can think of is to put everything in a table like:
<!-- SuperTable -->
<table border="0">
<tr>
<!-- sidebar cell -->
<td><table border="1"><tr><td><!-- USUAL sidebar.htm add color and border
to table as whished --></td></tr></table></td>
<td><table border="0"><tr><td><!-- USUAL
contentpage.htm --></td></tr></table></td>
</tr>
<-- END SuperTable -->
Patrick Turcotte
Innovatis inc.
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]De la part de Nicholas Froome
> Envoye : 18 novembre, 2002 10:53
> A : Multiple recipients of list witango-talk
> Objet : Re: Witango-Talk: Building appropriate page heights on dynamic
> pages
>
>
> >What do you want the sidebar to do? What's wrong with what it does now?
>
>
> I want the height of the sidebar to match that of the main
> content in the body of the page. This height is variable - as
> detailed below
>
>
>
> > > Has anyone thought about ways to calculate the height of pages on
> >dynamically-generated sites? I'd like to offer a sidebar height that
> >"tracks" the height of the results by adding additional sidebar
> sections as
> >required
> >>
> >> Some of our pages are long as they show 10 or 20 results from
> a database
> >search. For example:
> >>
> >> http://www.bolide.co.uk/actions/directory.taf?_function=WOWlist
> >>
> >> This page will always be long as there are (and always will
> be) more than
> >enough results to fit the page. As you can see the left-hand
> sidebar stops
> >half-way down the page
> >>
> >>
> >> Some pages will always be short, like
> >>
> >> http://www.bolide.co.uk/actions/addsubscriber.taf
> >>
> >>
> >> And some pages will be of variable length, dependent on how
> many results
> >the search provides
> >>
> >>
> >> Any thoughts on ways to track the resulting page height? I can
> count the
> >number of records returned in a search but this isn't always an totally
> >accurate guide as some entries take up more space than others
> >>
> >> I don't want to use frames. Currently the sidebars come straight out of
> >tango variables and their content is dynamically-generated. All pages are
> >dynamic. the site is built on Filemaker so super-complex calculations are
> >out...
> >>
> >> Ideally I would add a simple calc to the sidebar; this would
> mean the page
> >templates wouldn't need altering
> >>
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