CSS - Row Height - Ie 7 Vs Ie 8 And Firefox

Hello,

I am not trying to start an IE vs FireFox debate here. However, I have got a web page layed out exactly how I want in FireFox. Unfortunately, when I run the same page in IE 7+ the column mentioned in the code below is rendered as 51px+ in height instead of the 47px that I have explicitly set.

How do I overcome this problem such that the same page works in both IE and FireFox? My dimensions are very specific because of what my designer has created.

Thank you,
Crystal

Code:

<table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width:930px; padding-top:17px;">                 
  <tr style="vertical-align:bottom;">                        
    <td></td>                     
    <td rowspan="3" style="width:240px;"><img alt="Welcome" src="/logo.png" height="154" width="240" /></td>                     <td align="right" colspan="2">                         Help | <a class="toolbar" href="/contactUs.aspx">Contact Us</a></td>                     
<td></td>                 
</tr>                                  
<tr style="vertical-align:bottom;">                     
  <td style="vertical-align:bottom; width:44px;">
    <img alt="" src="/upperLeftCorner1.png" width="44" height="3" /></td><td style="width:227px; background-image: url(/edge.png);background-repeat:repeat-x; background-position:bottom;">&nbsp;</td>                     
<td align="right" style="padding-top:20px; vertical-align:bottom;">&nbsp;</td>                     
<td style="vertical-align:bottom; width:37px;"><img alt="" src="/upperRightCorner1.png" width="37" height="3" /></td>      </tr>                                  
<tr style="height:47px; vertical-align:bottom;">                     <td style="width:44px;"><img alt="" src="/upperLeftCorner2.png" width="44" height="47" /></td><td align="right" colspan="2" style="background-color:White;">[This column is my problem]</td>                     <td style="width:37px;"><img alt="" src="/upperRightCorner2.png" width="37" height="47" /></td>   </tr></table>

Hi guys, I'm having a problem with this test version of a site I'm creating. It looks fine in IE (though I have to properly align some text etc), but in Firefox the footer overlaps the main content paragraphs and the intended content background (the subtle paper texture) doesn't stretch vertically as intended. I've tried a couple of things including adding height:100% to the content div and its parent divs as I think other tutorials were getting at, but to no avail. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? Thanks in advance for any help or pointers you can give me!

Ed

CSS:
Code:

body div, h1, h2, h3, h4, p, ul, ol, li, dl, dt, dd, img, form, fieldset, blockquote {
	margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;
}
/* browser reset removes defaults */

html {
height:100%;
}

body {
background: #3ea7e9 url('images/background.jpg'); background-repeat:no-repeat; background-repeat:repeat-x;
color: #000;
font-family: tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size:12px;
font-size: 100%; /* font grows with layout */ margin:0 0 0 0; /* eliminates gap between header section and top of page */
}

#container {
position:relative;
background: url('images/banner.jpg'); background-repeat:repeat-y;
width:100%; float:left;
}

#logo {
position:relative;
/*background: url('images/logo.jpg'); background-repeat:no-repeat;*/ height:70px; width:905px;
}

#logo h1 a {
	display: block; width: 905px; height: 70px; float: left; margin:0 auto;
	background: url('images/logo.jpg') no-repeat; text-indent: -9999px;
}

#textbox {
position:relative;
background: url('images/textbox.jpg'); background-repeat:no-repeat; height:104px; width:905px;
}

#textbox p {
position:relative;
color:#efddad;
padding-top:30px;
padding-left:80px;
width:750px;
}

#feature-nav {
position:relative;
background: url('images/feature-nav.jpg'); background-repeat:no-repeat; height:146px; width:905px;
}

#feature {
position:relative;
color:#efddad;
float:left;
padding-top:50px;
padding-left:80px;
}

#nav {
position:relative;
color:#FFF;
float:right;
}

#button {
position:relative;
color:#FFF;
padding-top:76px;
padding-right:80px;
float:right;
}

#top-body {
position:relative;
background: url('images/top-body.jpg'); background-repeat:no-repeat; height:261px; width:905px;
}

#top-body p {
width:485px;
}

#top-left {
position:relative;
float:left;
padding-left:80px;
}

#top-left p {
width:485px;
float:left;
}

#top-right {
position:relative;
float:right;
width: 150px;
}

#top-right p {
width:150px;
}

#content {
position:relative;
width:905px;
background: url('images/body.jpg'); background-repeat:repeat-y;
padding-bottom:30px;
padding-left:80px;
height:100%; /* why doesn't this stretch everything to footer? */
}

#content p {
width:485px;
float:left;
}

#sidebar {
position:relative;
	width: 150px; /*top: 340px;*/ bottom:0px; float:left; padding-left:70px;
}

#sidebar p {
	width:150px;
}

#footer {
position:relative;
background: url('images/footer.jpg'); height:293px; repeat-y;
margin: 0 0 0 0;
}

h3 {
}

HTML:
Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
  <head>
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>Ed Evans dot co dot uk</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
  </head>
<body>

<div id="container">
<div id="logo">
	<h1><a>Ed Evans Web Design</a></h1>
</div><!--end logo-->

<div id="textbox">
	<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip.</p>
</div><!--end textbox-->


<div id="feature-nav">
	<div id="feature">
		<p>sdfsdfsdfsd</p>
	</div><!--end feature-->
	<div id="nav">
		<p>sdfsdfsdfsd</p>
	</div><!--end nav-->
	<div id="button">
		<p>sdfsdfsdfsd</p>
	</div><!--end nav-->
</div><!--end feature-nav-->


<div id="top-body">
	<div id="top-left">
	<h3>About</h3>
	<p>My name is Ed, yadda yadda Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum. </p>
	</div><!--end top-left-->
	<div id="top-right">
	<p>sdfdsfdsfdsfsdf</p>
	</div><!--end top-right-->
</div><!--end top-body-->

<div id="content">
	<h3>Test</h3>
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</p>

<div id="sidebar">
<p>sdfsdfsdfsdfsdfs
sssssssssssssssssss</p>
</div><!--end sidebar-->

</div><!--end content-->
<div id="footer">
</div><!--end footer-->

</div><!--end container-->

</body>
</html>

Sorry if this is a common problem. I tried a search but didn't find anything that seemed helpful.

I've got "frame" (not a <frame>) around the content of my site and I need this frame to expand vertically if necessary, according to the content. I've done this by having a 1px high image, set to 100% height and an exact pixel width.

The frame is a table, three cells wide, with the side images in the two outermost cells and the content in the central cell. It's the side images that cause a problem.

What I've got works fine in Firefox but in IE6, the sides of the frame don't display, or the image displays but doesn't stretch (I can't tell 'cos the images are only 1px high).

Here's the basic table layout:

Code:

<table id="frameTable" border="0">
<tr>
 <td>
  <img id="FrameLeftImg" src="resource/frameleft.png" />
 </td>
 <td>
  <?php /*Add constructed page data*/ ?></td>
 <td>
  <img id="FrameRightImg" src="resource/frameright.png"/>
 </td>
</tr>
</table>

And here's the CSS for the side images:

Code:

#FrameLeftImg {
	position: relative;
	width: 26px;
	height:100%;
	}
	
#FrameRightImg {
	position: relative;
	width: 28px;
	height:100%;
	}

The table is contained in a div that is absolutely positioned by pixels but has no value specified for width and height.

Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

I noticed that in Firefox, setting the height to 100% in the style tag attribute, does not work.

See code below:
Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>Table Height</title>
<style type="text/css">
.wrapper {
  min-height: 100%;
  max-height: 100%;
  height: auto !important;
  height: 100%;
  overflow: auto;
}
#divider {
	cursor: e-resize;
	width: 8px;;
	background-color: #444444;
	vertical-align: center;
	min-height: 100%;
	max-height: 100%;
	height: auto !important;
  	height: 100%;
}
</style>
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
//global variables used to track status
var curWidth=0
var curPos=0
var newPos=0
var mouseStatus='up'

//this function gets the original div height
function setPos(e){
	//for handling events in ie vs. w3c
	curevent = (typeof event == 'undefined' ? e:event);
	//sets mouse flag as down
	mouseStatus = 'down';
	//gets position of click
	curPos = curevent.clientX;
	//accepts height of the div
	tempWidth = document.getElementById('leftMenu').style.width;
	//these lines split the width value from the 'px' units
	widthArray = tempWidth.split('px');
	curWidth = parseInt(widthArray[0]);
}

//this changes the height of the div while the mouse button is depressed
function getPos(e){
	if(mouseStatus=='down'){
		curevent = (typeof event == 'undefined' ? e:event);
		//get new mouse position
		newPos = curevent.clientX;
		//calculate movement in pixels
		var pxMove=parseInt(newPos-curPos);
		//determine new width
		var newWidth = parseInt(curWidth+pxMove);
		//conditional to set minimum width to 5
		newWidth = (newWidth < 10 ? 10:newWidth);
		//set the new width of the div
		document.getElementById('leftMenu').style.width = newWidth+'px';
	}
}

function toggleMenu(e) {
	e.stopPropagation();
	if (document.getElementById('leftMenu').style.display != 'none') {
		document.getElementById('leftMenu').style.display = 'none';
	} else {
		document.getElementById('leftMenu').style.display = '';
	}
}

//-->
</script>
</head>

<body style="margin: 0; width: 100%; height: 100% !important;" onmousemove="getPos(event)" onmouseup="mouseStatus='up'">
<table cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%; height: 100%;">
  <tr valign="top">
    <td id="leftMenu" style="width: 230px;">
      <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Integer pretium dui sit amet felis. Integer sit amet diam. Phasellus ultrices viverra velit.</p>
    </td>
    <td id="divider" onmousedown="setPos(event)"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="toggleMenu(event);" style="color:white;"><></a></td>
    <td id="mainContent">
      <div class="wrapper">
        <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Cras quis nisl in lectus consectetuer ornare. Phasellus mi lectus, laoreet nec, bibendum eget, posuere sit amet, urna. Sed ut sem. Mauris tincidunt. Sed suscipit ultrices orci. Morbi quis augue. Ut id felis quis ipsum vestibulum vulputate. Nulla sit amet tellus ut nisl varius scelerisque. Nulla commodo eros. Maecenas luctus, nisi in pulvinar malesuada, magna felis egestas pede, tempus sagittis metus quam ut orci. Quisque quis mauris id dui venenatis adipiscing. Nulla cursus nulla dictum mi. Sed sollicitudin sapien sit amet tellus.</p>
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        <p>Vivamus quis risus quis justo facilisis nonummy. Duis eget massa. Sed lacus purus, adipiscing quis, accumsan sit amet, gravida at, nibh. Nullam malesuada. Morbi molestie. Praesent rhoncus, dui quis pharetra tristique, leo mauris semper nisi, eu pellentesque est quam volutpat quam. Nunc congue, nisi at cursus suscipit, eros metus faucibus eros, sed eleifend enim lacus sit amet dolor. Maecenas sed lectus consequat magna aliquet rhoncus. Nullam purus. Cras rutrum, neque in aliquam aliquet, felis nisl semper ligula, id scelerisque tellus orci at massa. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Donec sit amet est.</p>
        <p>Morbi eget tellus vel ante rhoncus placerat. Maecenas libero. Fusce quis massa. Vestibulum euismod, nisl eget congue lobortis, mauris dolor aliquet dui, eu auctor tellus ligula eu justo. Donec mollis dolor interdum nunc. Quisque eget ipsum ut turpis aliquam volutpat. Aenean ac enim vitae purus fringilla consectetuer. Etiam consectetuer augue a enim. Sed felis. Maecenas et elit a lectus nonummy tincidunt. Morbi nulla ante, pharetra quis, egestas quis, commodo id, tortor. Quisque dignissim dapibus arcu. Cras rhoncus. Quisque fringilla sapien id pede. In vehicula pretium libero. Pellentesque ut lectus. Vestibulum pulvinar nibh sit amet justo. Phasellus a lacus in purus congue accumsan. Nullam luctus laoreet arcu. Praesent nonummy, arcu ut porttitor dapibus, nunc augue nonummy quam, et consectetuer nunc mi vel tortor.</p>
      </div>
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

Can anyone suggest a solution?

For some reason my code adds a vertical scrollbar in firefox (although not in IE but you can make anything work in IE).

I am not sure why. The scroll amount is only 1 pixel vertically. Everything looks good to me. Any ideas?

PHP Code:
<style type="text/css">
<!--
html {height:100%;}
body {
margin:0; 
padding:0; 
height:100%;
background:#ffffff url(bg.gif) top right repeat-y;
font-family:Papyrus, Rockwell, Poor Richard, Times New Roman, serif;
}
#wrap {
position:relative;
background:url(bg.gif) top left repeat-y;
min-height:100%;
}
* html #wrap {height:100%} 

#clear_footer {
clear:both;
height:19px;
overflow:hidden;
}
#footer_full_width {
position:absolute;
bottom:0;
height:19px;
background-image: url(../images/bottomredstripe.jpg);
width:100%;
color:#fff;
background-color: #999;
text-align:center;
} 
#footer_panel {
position:relative;
bottom:0;
height:19px;
background-image: url(../images/gray_bottom.jpg);
width:730px;
height: 19px;
color:#fff;
background-color: #999;
text-align:center;
} 
#left {
float:left;
width:200px;
text-align:center;
}
#main {
position:relative;
margin-left:200px;
} 

#right {
float:right;
width:200px;
text-align:center;
}
#content {
padding:5px;
margin-right:200px;
text-align:left;
}
* html #content,
* html #main {
height:1px;
}

-->
</style>

<div id="wrap">
  <div id="header">header</div>
  <div id="left">left</div>
  <div id="main">
    <div id="right">right</div>
    <div id="content">main content</div>
  </div>
  <div id="clear_footer"></div>
  <div id="footer_full_width">
      <div id="footer_panel">FOOTER</div>
  </div>
</div>