[HTML] Table sizes

[Glaanieboy]

As you can see on http://glaanieboy.dyndns.org/design/, I have a giant table (I left the boarders intact, so it's easy to view), with 3 seperate columns. I have set the width to 100%, which works ok. But the height is giving me a problem. I want it to stretch out all the way to the bottom, but I just can't do it. If you view the source code, you see I have set in both <table> as in all the <td>'s a height of 100%, but it just doesn't work. Help me!

 

[Geffy]

height isnt a valid table tag, try using CSS positioning to set it say x from the top and x from the bottom, or maybe margin-bottom

 

[Ded Morozh]

The height tag will work in a table, but you should set it in pixels. As it is it's fine, you don't have enough content in the table to extend down the page.

 

[PseudoKiller]

height is a valid table attribute... in % or pixels. What is messing it up is the info at the top

<!--DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

add the 2 -- in red above and it works...

 

[Glaanieboy]

height is a valid table attribute... in % or pixels. What is messing it up is the info at the top

<!--DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

add the 2 -- in red above and it works...

According to the w3c.org website, these -- shouldn't be there:
http://www.w3.org/QA/2002/04/valid-dtd-list.html

@Geffy, I did consider that, but I figured it should work with plain HTML too. Nevertheless, I shall try it.

@Ded Morozh, that would mean if someone browsed my site with a 960 vertical pixel resolution (I am developing this site @ 768 vert pixels), the table wouldn't be extended to the bottom and someone with a 600 vp resolution would have a table stretched out beyond normal resolution. If you know what I mean

 

[PseudoKiller]

According to the w3c.org website, these -- shouldn't be there:
http://www.w3.org/QA/2002/04/valid-dtd-list.html

@Geffy, I did consider that, but I figured it should work with plain HTML too. Nevertheless, I shall try it.

@Ded Morozh, that would mean if someone browsed my site with a 960 vertical pixel resolution (I am developing this site @ 768 vert pixels), the table wouldn't be extended to the bottom and someone with a 600 vp resolution would have a table stretched out beyond normal resolution. If you know what I mean

up to you but it worked when I put in the -- go figure. Maybe a bug

 

[Glaanieboy]

Yeah. Weird...

 

[Graebob]

as far as i can see, if you resize the window the table stays at 100% height anyway!

 

[X-Istence]

CSS, not HTML.

CSS was created to making the stuff that gets displayed all pretty, where as HTML was made as a markup langauge, as a way to tell the browser about certain text, not as a way to add the looks and stuff that it has grown out to be.

 

[Glaanieboy]

Alright. I gave up on the whole table align thing, I removed the borders, so at least you don't see it. I still find it strange when adding the -- it works, otherwise (as specified by W3C) it doesn't. Perhaps a bug, maybe intentional, who knows. I don't and I don't want to know. What's important to me, is that my site is being rendered properly in the popular browsers (Opera, IE, Mozilla/Gecko), if I break a rule, though luck.

Right now I am recoding my shoutbox, so it will be better intergrated in the site and have better security and I will build a blog-system. But that doesn't have to do with my original question, so I'll stop. Thank you all for your help, it was greatly appreciated.

 

[Geffy]

the <!-- makes it into a comment so things ignore the doctype

 

[Glaanieboy]

So I noticed. Ah well, it's not an issue now.