height="100%"

[David Harrison]

How do I make the minimum height of a table 100% of the page height. I tried height="100%" but it isn't standard so it works on IE but not on netscape (at least not on version 7.02).

[David Harrison]

I had a feeling I might have to do something like that but I'm not sure how, can you fill me in please?

[brendandonhue]

If you need the table height to be 100%, its sounds like you are using a table for the layout of the page. This is generally not a good idea, you should use a DIV or SPAN instead.

[David Harrison]

I can't do that, it's not just for layout otherwise I would have wholeheartedly crossed over to css.
I have a red background color on my page and all of my content centered within 620 px's in the middle of the page as a blue stripe.

[Charles]

Yes, you are using TABLEs for layout.

[pyro]

Originally posted by lavalamp
I have a red background color on my page...Which you may want to think about switching...It is very hard on the eyes...

[brendandonhue]

I think in the table tag, you could add
style="height:100%"

[Robert Wellock]

Basically tables cannot possess 100% height and fill the canvas according to the Technical Recommendations, although there are script or hack methods.

Also according to the "Cascading Style Sheets, Level 2 revision 1" Working Draft, which few people actually know about : http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/ it's debatable whether the table column can have actually have % height set via CSS.

[David Harrison]

Well thanks for all of you're effort but I've now decided to switch over to CSS (now that I know a little bit more about it), so instead I've found some new bugs, like I can't centre a div tag, oh joy.

[spufi]

If your <div> tag has inline content than you can define the css for the <div> tag as "text-align:center;" If it has block level content within it, use "margin:0 auto;"

[David Harrison]

Thank-you so much that works fine but, in "margin:0 auto;" is the 0 really neccesary?

[spufi]

Well try it out. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. :D

[David Harrison]

Well I've only tried it witout on ie 6 so far but that does seem to accept less than perfect code while others sometimes don't, so I really don't know.

By the way, can you get on to the validator in your links in your sig, because I can't.

[brendandonhue]

I used it yesterday but the validator seems to be down right now.

[David Harrison]

Does anyone know of any other validators in case something like this happens again?

[brendandonhue]

Nope, W3C is really THE official validator. It should be back really soon.

[Robert Wellock]

http://www.mirror.ac.uk/services/validator/