HTML - Can You Specify Max Image Size If Width=xx%

Hi everyone:

Any help appreciated.

Objective: To have three equally sized and spaced images arranged horizontally, with their size set automatically by the size of the window.

Development: I'm using a Mac, and I don't have ready access to a PC to experiment.

What I tried:
Code:

	<table>
		<tr>
			<td><img src = "a.png" style = "width: 100%" /></td>
			<td><img src = "b.png" style = "width: 100%" /></td>
			<td><img src = "c.png" style = "width: 100%" /></td>
		</tr>
	</table>
	<p class = "caption">A caption for the 3 images</p>
	<p class = "legend" >A legend for the three images</p>

What happened: This works perfectly in Safari and Firefox (Mac) and Firefox under Vista, but in Internet Explorer under Vista , the images are HUGE - the unscaled size of the originals.

What I think is the reason: IE is taking 100% to be relative to the width of the body element, not the td element.

What I don't want to have to do: Use fixed sizes or calculate the sizes on the fly.

What I'm trying now: removing the table and using a div, and inside that, setting the image width to 33% and floating one right and one left.

What's the trick to get around this IE "gotcha" please?

Thanks from a newbie.

All:

Working to update a previously designed website.

Original design uses an <img> tag to create a top banner and another <img> tag
to create a side banner.

In each case there are mapped coordinates on each banner as links for the subsequent pages.

Basic page design is as follows:

Code:

<table>
   <tr>
      <td>
         <img usemap="Map1">
         <map name="Map1">
            <area>
            <area>
            <area>
         </map>
      </td>
   </tr>
</table>
<table>
   <tr>
      <td>
         <img name="Map2">
         <map>
            <area>
            <area>
            <area>
         </map>
      </td>
      <div>
         ***PAGE CONTENT***
      </div>
   <tr>
<table>

The challenge is that the [PAGE CONTENT] varries in length througout the site causing some pages
to be much longer or shorter than others.

This causes some inconsistencey in the relationship between the side banners height and the
page content.

In other words in some cases the banner is exceptionally longer than the page content and the
reader must scroll past significant "dead-space" before being brought to the lowest
mapped links in the side banner; or...

...in some cases the side banner is significantly shorter than the page content causing the
banner image to appear "poorly-fit" to the page design.

I considered altering the 2nd table instance in the above design so that the banner is carried
in a <td> tag that is adjacent to the page content and hopefully to allow the tag carrying the
image to size relative to the <td> tag carring the content....

Code:

<table>
   <tr>
      <td>
         <img usemap="Map1">
         <map name="Map1">
            <area>
            <area>
            <area>
         </map>
      </td>
   </tr>
</table>
<table>
   <tr>
      <td size="100%">
         <img name="Map2">
         <map>
            <area>
            <area>
            <area>
         </map>
      </td>
      <td size="100%" >
         <table>
            ***PAGE CONTENT***
         </table>
      </td>
   <tr>
<table>

The problem I've found with this is that as the content size causes the image to "flex", either
readablilty or image quality or both are effected, AND the mappings become inconsistent as the
image coordinates constantly change.

I've considered 2 solutions and am leaning toward one, but thought I'd post this and see if there
are better ideas I'm overlooking.

One idea was to add additional table rows inside the [PAGE CONTENT] table presumably creating a
"defalut" page size that would never be smaller than a standard for the side banner.
Problem: larger page sizes are still a problem as are the changing map coordinates

My other idea was to return to the original page design listed first above and again settle on
a standard side banner "height"... ...any page that was significantly longer than that height
would be split to 2 or more pages with a [NEXT>>] button at the bottom of the page navigating to
the additional content.
Problem: ...possible complications splitting content...
Benefit: ...consistent page design that allows a consistent side banner with navigable links...


Question for the group:
Does this sound reasonable?
Are there better alternatives I am overlooking?

THANKS IN ADVANCE FOR ALL INPUT!!

I don't know what part of this html is making the pictures in my table compressed width wise but if someone could help that would be fantastic.

Here is the code:



<style type="text/css">
body,table, td, li, p, div, textarea
{font-family:Tahoma; font-size:12pt; color:ffffff; font-weight:none;}

table, td { background-color:transparent; border:none; border-width:0;}
body{background-image:url(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y28...onlybkgd.jpg);
background-attachment:fixed;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-position:bottom right;
background-color:179f99; }

body
{scrollbar-face-color:179f99;
scrollbar-shadow-color:ffffff;
scrollbar-highlight-color:ffffff;
scrollbar-3dlight-color:ffffff;
scrollbar-darkshadow-color:ffffff;
scrollbar-track-color:87f5f3;
scrollbar-arrow-color:ffffff;}

.text {font-family:Tahoma; font-size:12pt;
color:000000; font-weight:none}

.redtext{font-family:Tahoma;
font-size:10pt; color:000000; font-weight:bold}

.redbtext{font-family:Tahoma;
font-size:10pt; color:000000; font-weight:bold}

.orangetext15{font-family:Tahoma;
font-size:10pt; color:000000; font-weight:bold}

.lightbluetext8{font-family:Tahoma;
font-size:10pt; color:000000; font-weight:bold}

.whitetext12{font-family:Tahoma;
font-size:10pt; color:000000; font-weight:bold}

.blacktext12{font-family:Tahoma;
font-size:10pt; color:000000; font-weight:bold}

.nametext{font-family:Tahoma;
font-size:10pt; color:000000; font-weight:bold}

.blacktext10{font-family:Tahoma;
font-size:10pt; color:000000; font-weight:bold; background-color:transparent}

strong, b {font-weight: bold; color:000000;}

a{font-family:Arial; font-size:12pt;
font-weight:normal;background-color:transparent;}
a:link{color:000000;font-weight:bold;font-family:Arial}
a:active{color:000000;font-weight:bold;font-family:Arial}
a:visited{color:000000;font-weight:bold;font-family:Arial}
a:hover{color:000000;font-weight:bold;font-family:Arial}

a.redlink{font-family:Arial; font-size:12pt;
font-weight:normal;background-color:transparent;}
a.redlink:link{color:000000;font-weight:bold;font-family:Arial}
a.redlink:active{color:000000;font-weight:bold;font-family:Arial}
a.redlink:visited{color:000000;font-weight:bold;font-family:Arial}
a.redlink:hover{color:000000;font-weight:bold;font-family:Arial}

a.navbar{font-family:Arial; font-size:12pt;
font-weight:normal;background-color:transparent;}
a.navbar:link{color:000000;font-weight:bold;font-family:Arial}
a.navbar:active{color:000000;font-weight:bold;font-family:Arial}
a.navbar:visited{color:000000;font-weight:bold;font-family:Arial}
a.navbar:hover{color:000000;font-weight:bold;font-family:Arial}

a.man{font-family:Arial; font-size:10pt;
font-weight:normal;background-color:transparent;}
a:link{color:000000;font-weight:bold;font-family:Arial}
a:active{color:000000;font-weight:bold;font-family:Arial}
a:visited{color:000000;font-weight:bold;font-family:Arial}
a:hover{color:000000;font-weight:bold;font-family:Arial}
</style>

<style> table, tr, td {background-color: transparent; border: 0px; padding:2;}
table table {border: 2px;}
table table table {border: 16px dotted; border-color: 87f5f3; background-color: ffffff; background-image:url(); padding:0;}
table table table table{border: 0px;}
table table table table table,
table table table table table </style>

<style>
}
table table table table {border:0px;}
.{content:"Text and Link Properties";}
input {background-color:transparent !important;}
td, div, input, textarea, a, table td div div font,
div table tr td font {font-family:Verdana !important;}
td, div, input, textarea, table td div div font,div table tr td font {color:000000!important; font-size:10pt !important;}
.nametext, .whitetext12, .lightbluetext8, .orangetext15, .blacktext12, .blacktext12 span,.redtext, .redbtext, .blacktext10, .btext {color:000000!important; font-size:10pt !important;}
a {color:000000!important; font-size:10pt !important;text-decoration:none !important; text-transform:none !important; font-weight:normal !important; font-style:normal !important;}
a:hover {color:000000!important; text-decoration:none !important; text-transform:none !important; font-weight:normal !important; font-style:normal !important;}

<style type="text/css">
table table table
{width:400px; !important;}
table table td img {display:none;}
table table table td img {display:inline;}
table td td {width:0px;}
table {width:500px;}
table table {width:400px; !important;}
table table td {padding:3px;}
table table table td {padding:0px;}
table table table {width:400px !important; height:0px;}
td.text td a img {display: inline !important; }
table table table table table,
table table table table table td {
width:0px !important; padding:0px !important;}
td.text a img {width:130px }
td.text td.text a img {width:100px !important; }
td td td div strong {width:200px !important; display:block;}
.redblackfonttext14{font-weight:normal}
textarea, input, font, a, table, td, div, b {font-size:10pt !important;font-family:century gothic!important;font-weight:normal!Important;text-transform:lowercase}
span {font-size:10pt !important;font-family:century gothic!important;font-weight:normal!Important;text-transform:uppercase}
embed, object {display:inline}
.orangetext15, .blacktext10 {
display:block; width:300px; font-size:10pt !important;}
td.text td.text .orangetext15,
td.text td.text table table div {display:none;}
.thanks:mrk{.}
.mct{www.myspace.com/contacttables}
</style>




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