Page Height in Explorer

[csl-erik]

Hello,

I'm having some strange problems with page height in Internet Explorer (in Windows). You should be able to see it at this link:
http://mvhub.ltc.org/guide/
(there shouldn't be scrollbars at all, preferably, but the vertica ones are the major problem)

It displays properly in Mozilla Firebird/fox on Linux.

The stylesheet is at:
http://mvhub.ltc.org/guide/styles/main.css

Also, this is my first time doing stylesheets, so general constructive criticism is very welcome.

Thanks,
Erik

[Jona]

Seems to look fine if you take the height property out of the HTML and BODY element structures.

[Fang]

and/or take the height out of the TD elements.
Better would be to dump the table layout and just use CSS.

[csl-erik]

Thanks for the quick response!

We want the table to stretch to fill the page, which doesn't seem to be the default behavior. And, a height attribute isn't in the HTML 4.01 spec for tables.

The html/body height styles were a work-around for that I found in forums somewhere.

What we'd really like is for the main table to stretch almost all the way to the bottom of the screen, except for a ~20 pixel yellow border, when there is not enough content to fill the screen.

When there is too much content to be displayed in a single screen and a vertical scrollbar is necessary, we'd still like the 20 pixel yellow border to show up at the bottom, to clearly indicate to the users that that's the end.

Thanks again
E

[Fang]

Give the
BODY {
background:yellow;
margin-bottom:20px;
}
The background of other elements need to be given colors.

[csl-erik]

This still doesn't stretch the table vertically to fill up the screen, at least not in Mozilla. Is there a way to make the table extend to the bottom of the screen. As is, it is just big enough to fit its contents.

[Jona]

It'd probably be easier to just lose the tables and go with CSS only, like Fang said in his first reply. :rolleyes:

[csl-erik]

It probably would be, I will look into it.

It seems I can make it work nicely in Mozilla OR IE 6.0 OR IE 5.5, but no combination of the three.

Thanks for all the help!

-E

[Jona]

Originally posted by csl-erik
It seems I can make it work nicely in Mozilla OR IE 6.0 OR IE 5.5, but no combination of the three.

I think by "Mozilla" you mean: Netscape, Mozilla, Mozilla FireFox, and Opera, am I correct? ;)

(Just trying to point out, even though it's quite obvious, that IE is the bad boy here, not Mozilla.)

[csl-erik]

Yes, you're correct. I guess Microsoft thinks they're too good for the W3C specs... ;)