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HTML - Table Cell Won't Stay A Fixed Size!
Hi,
I'm a little new at this, and I'm trying to put a pretty simple website together. I have a table that is the basis for the whole website design. It's pretty fixed, so I want all the widths of the table to be constant. A couple rows have fixed heights for aesthetic purposes. A couple rows I want to expand to whatever height is necessary to accomodate the content inside. the fourth row of the table has three cells side by side that I use as the header design. 1) picture 2) space 3) title I want all these to have fixed widths and heights. underneath is a cell that spans the length of all three of those. This is where I want my content. 4) content The length of this stays fixed but the height changes as more content is addes. The trouble is, the table cells display correctly for me as long as there is limited amount of text inside the 4) content cell. Whenever I enter past a few sentences, the 1) picture cell starts taking up more of the width and shrinking the 3) title cell. And this really messes up the nice spacing I had. Any thoughts on why this would happen??? I'm just stuck. I've tried a million things, but I'm sure its something simple I can't see right now. Hopefully a pair of fresh (and knowledgeable) eyes can help! Thanks so much, heres my code: [font="Courier New"] <body> <table width="875" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td height="75" colspan="5"><img src="../images/RichfieldLogo.png" width="250" height="75"></td> </tr> <tr align="center"> <td height="25" colspan="5" valign="top" class="mainmenu" style="border-bottom: solid 1px #666666; border-top: solid 1px #666666"> <h1 class="menu"> <ul> <li><a href="#" class="mainmenu">Home</a></li> <li><a href="#" class="mainmenu">Party in the Park</a></li> <li><a href="#" class="mainmenu">Info</a></li> </ul> </h1></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="20" colspan="5"><img src="../images/20spacer.png" width="20" height="20"></td> </tr> <tr align="left" valign="top"> <td width="190" rowspan="2"> <img src="../images/PartynParkPlaceholder.png" width="190" height="385"></td> <td width="20" rowspan="2"><img src="../images/20spacer.png" width="20" height="20" border="0" align="top"></td> <!-- This is where the trouble starts! I can't get these cells to stay a fixed size!!! --> <td width="275" height="275"><img src="../images/SamplePicSmall1.png" width="275" height="275" border="0" align="right"></td> <td width="20" height="275"><img src="../images/20spacer.png" width="20" height="20"></td> <td width="370" height="275"> <p><font size="45px" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" weight="bold"><strong>Party <br /> in the Park</strong></font><br /> <h2 class="datetime"><font color="#666666">LOCATION </font> Richfield Park, 345 Main St in Richfield<br /> <font color="#666666">DATE </font>Saturday, October 13 2008 <br /> <font color="#666666">TIME</font> From 8am until late afternoon<br /> <font color="#666666">INFO</font> Call 704.463.1308</h2></p> </td> </tr> <!-- This seems to be the cause of it. If I have a couple sentences down here its fine, but more than a few words and it causes sheer html chaos above! --> <tr> <td colspan="3"><img src="../images/10spacer.png" width="10" height="10"><br /><hr width=100% size=1px color=#99CC33> <img src="../images/10spacer.png" width="10" heigh="10"><br /> <h2 class="text">Party in the Park is an annual Richfield tradition started in 199X to gather the town's residents and their friends together to enjoy good food, fun entertainment and each other's company. This year we'll have blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. The morning will end right with our famous Cush cookoff! Party in the Park is an annual Richfield tradition started in 199X to gather the town's residents and their friends together to enjoy good food, fun entertainment and each other's company. This year we'll have blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. The morning will end right with our famous Cush cookoff! </h2> <br /><img src="../images/25spacer.png"><br /> <p><h1 class="menu2">Features</h1></p> <p><h1 class="menu2">Photos</h1><hr width="100%" size="1px" color="#99CC33"></p> <p><h1 class="menu2">Flyer</h1></p> <p><h1 class="menu2">Directions</h1></p> </td> </tr> <!-- And everything from here on out seems to be fine from what I can tell --> <tr> <td height="75" colspan="5"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="5" valign="top"><hr width="100%" padding-bottom="1px"> <div align="right"><font color="#99CC33"><em><font color="#000000" size="-7" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">email us at </font><font size="-7" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">web@gorichfield.com</font></em></font></div></td> </tr> </table> </body> thanks again for any help guys! Similar TutorialsHi 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. I have a very simple table that I cannot simply get to render correctly across IE, Firefox, and Opera. At first, I was using CSS to define the cell widths/heights - when that was giving me issues I got rid of all the CSS and attempted to use plain HTML. The problem persisted. Here's the code - it doesn't get much simpler than this: Code: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE> New Document </TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="1"> <tr> <td width="15" height="33">a</td> <td>b</td> <td>c</td> <td width="15" height="33">d</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="4" rowspan="1">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.</td> </tr> </table> </BODY> </HTML> Appearance in Opera Appearance in IE7 Appearance in Firefox (this is what I want it to look like in all browsers) I haven't done HTML seriously in 7-8 years or so but I don't really remember having these problems with IE/Netscape. The fix I found for IE was to use style="table-layout: fixed" for the table: Code: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE> New Document </TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="1" style="table-layout: fixed"> <tr> <td width="15" height="33">a</td> <td>b</td> <td>c</td> <td width="15" height="33">d</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="4" rowspan="1">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.</td> </tr> </table> </BODY> </HTML> Now IE works fine, Firefox didn't break, but Opera's cells still are not 15 pixels. IE7 Appearance fixed Here's my attempt at getting Opera to display it properly by mixing CSS and HTML: Code: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE> New Document </TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="1" style="table-layout: fixed"> <tr> <td style="width: 15px; height: 33px" width="15" height="33">a</td> <td style="height: 33px">b</td> <td style="height: 33px">c</td> <td style="width: 15px; height: 33px" width="15" height="33">d</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 100%" width="100%" colspan="4" rowspan="1">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.</td> </tr> </table> </BODY> </HTML> Opera looks even worse now This seems like such a simple table. I really don't understand why I'm having such a hard time. I believe the second row - using colspan is causing the issue. Please don't answer with - "dont use tables" or something silly like that Thank you -TableTrTd The table itself is working fine, but the size of each cell is not correct in Firefox. Here is a screenshot of what is happening: http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/1938/tabletroubles.gif Here is the head of my page, the css for the table is he HTML Code:
<style type="text/css">
#cat table {border:0px solid #333333; cell-padding:0; cell-spacing:0; align=center}
#cat tr {align=center}
#cat td {font-size: 13px; font-family=tahoma; font-weight: bold; padding: 0px; border:0px solid #333333; align=center;}
#cat td a {text-decoration: none; color:#757575; background-color: white; display:block; height=23; background-image: url(linkbg1.gif); align=center;}
#cat td a:hover {background-color: #333333; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;color: #ffffff; background-image: url(linkbg2.gif); align=center;}
</style>
and here is the table code, located in the body of the page: HTML Code: <div style="Height:53px; overflow:auto; width:900px; position:absolute; top:0; left:0"> <TABLE bgcolor=#333333 cellspacing=0; cellpadding=0;><tr><td> <div id="cat"> <table width=900; cellpadding:0px; cellspacing:0px> <tr align=center> <td width=20%> <font face=tahoma><a href="home.html">Home</a></font> </td> <td width=20%><center><font face=tahoma><a href="openings.html" target="_top">Openings</a></font></center></td> <td width=20%><center><font face=tahoma><a href="dance.html" target="_top">Dance</a></font></center></td> <td width=20%><center><font face=tahoma><a href="projects.html" target="_top">Projects</a></font></center></td> <td width=20%><center><font face=tahoma><a href="vocaloid.html" target="_top">Vocaloid</a></font></center></td> </tr> <tr> <td width=20%><center><font face=tahoma><a href="fanflashes.html" target="_top">Fanflashes</a></font></center></td> <td width=20%><center><font face=tahoma><a href="caramelldansen.html" target="_top">Caramelldansen</a></font></center></td> <td width=20%><center><font face=tahoma><a href="cosplay.html" target="_top">Cosplay</a></font></center></td> <td width=20%><center><font face=tahoma><a href="endings.html" target="_top">Endings</a></center></td> <td width=20%><center><font face=tahoma><a href="anime.html" target="_top">Anime Episodes</a></font></font></center></td> </tr> </table> </div> </td></tr></table> </div> A table is nested within another table. The table on the outside has no content, it is there to make a gray border around everything else. If you look at the table in firefox & internet explorer, you'll see that in IE- the table is much thicker than in firefox. How can i make it so that the table in Firefox will have the same thickness as the one in IE? I could really use some help. Thanks! This could be an HTML or CSS problem, but I can't figure out what's causing this and it's driving me nuts! The left column on my website will not stay a fixed width of 175px in IE 8. That seems to be the only browser having a problem. Here's the link: http://www.jrsart.net/testarea/paull...cientists.html I've linked the page that has it the worst, but if you visit the other pages and keep an eye on the left column's border, you'll see it keeps moving. Please help! I'm rapidly running out of time to fix this issue, so any advice would be greatly appreciated! Hey everyone, I feel like this is a noob question, but I'm going to ask anyway. How do write my site so that my body stays in the same place and doesn't smash together when I manually resize my page? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks hi, i have a jsp page, in this page i am displaying data retrieved from mysql database. Now the problem is i must color table cell based on cell value. how to implement this.please give me an sample or working code foe this problem.( any code is accepted) preferably html or javascript. i.e if cell value is "late" then display that cell in red color else display the cell in green color please help me. Thanks ad Regards Akash Hi guys, Okay I know my source code is a bit of a mess - but I wondered if anybody is able to tell me why the cell which has the text: Quote: STAYUPDATED: News will appear here soon. in it, varies in size from page to page. e.g. http://www.bigbrotherwebsite.net/ind...page=nomsevics to http://www.bigbrotherwebsite.net/ind...tingunexpected and http://www.bigbrotherwebsite.net/ind...knowledgements - ideally I'd like the cell to remain the same size as the one on the last page... (Acknowledgements) Any ideas gang? It's puzzled me! - Joe I want to create a html page which should not have address back, Back and Forward button. any help ? How do I make a table with a fixed width stay centered even if the browser window's horizontal size is smaller than the table's horizontal size? align="center" makes the table centered as long as the browser window is bigger than the table. If the browser window is smaller, the table will be cropped on the right size only, not on both size. I would like to do this to have a table with a fixed width and a background image, so that no horizontal scrolling bar appears if the screen resolution if too small for the table. The image should howerver stay centered no matter what the windows size is. Thanks. Hi everyone. So I got my template set up to the way I like it and everything is rolling good. I inserted a picture into one of the cells in the table and it shifts everything over. Here is my code: <td width="625" colspan="1" bgcolor="white"> <font type="Arial" size ="5" color="blue"> <b>Floorplan</b><br> <center> <a href="floorplanlarge.jpg"><img src="floorplansmall.jpg" border="0" /></a> </center> </td> I have been working on fixing this for the last hour and am out of ideas on what is going on. The picture is smaller than the cell width range. My picture width is 311 pixels and the cell width is 625 pixels. I dont know if there is code whether its HTML or CSS to prevent the cell from widening. Any help would be appreciated. Also if you need me to provide more detail I can. Thanks. Hi i have a table with a picture within its only cell . How can i lock the size of the table so that it wil not get any larger should a larger image be put in it? I have tried setting the width and height to a fixed value but that does not seem to do keep it fixed. Ideally i would like the image to resize itself to match the maximum values of the table but this i suppose will probably be a good bit harder? Hi all, i have table with 3 columns, this is the code: <body> <center><table frame="vsides" cellspacing="0" border="2" width="1000" cellpadding="10" > <tr> <td bgcolor="white" width="200" valign="top"> <br><br>This is some text. </td> <td bgcolor="white" width="600" valign="top"><br> This is some text. </td> <td bgcolor="white" width="200" valign="top"> <br> This is some text. </td> </tr> </table></center> </body> but when i enter some more txt table expand, is it possible to create table that columns can expand(height) but rows not(width)? thx I have (for my sins - should have read up on css earlier) a table-based site, essentially with header, footer, left and right cells and the main piece in the middle. I have used different background colours, but am wanting to highlight the middle bit. I have used a border, but that seems to centre on the edge of the cell - ie half the specified border size is inside the cell and half outside. The effect of this is that my two side pieces have whitespace before they start. Is there any way to specify a 'border' which stays totally within its relevant cell ? Thanks. Hello, I have a problem with tables cells containing form buttons: Code: <tr> <td colspan="2" align="center"> <button id="button-submit_2" type="submit">Add Name</button>      </form> <form action="nrt-home-edit&delete.php" method="post"> <input type="hidden" name="class_name" value="$class_name[0]"/> <button id="button-submit_2" type="submit">Finish</button></form> </td> </tr> The above code puts the two buttons on their own lines within the table cell. My question is, does anybody know how to keep them on the same line without putting them into their own individual cells? Hi Can someone please tell me how I can make a table cell (which contains text which is linked) linkable? http://www.revolution.worldclanleagu...?site=calendar Here you can see a calendar with months at the top. When you hover over a month, the cell highlights but only the text inside is actually selectable - I'd like to make the cell selectable/linked. PHP/HTML I have: Code: <td class="calendar-month" align="center"><a class="calendar" href="index.php?site=calendar&month=01">'.mb_substr($_language->module['jan'], 0, 3).'</a></td> CSS: Code: a.calendar, a.calendar:visited, a.calendar:active {
font-family: Arial;
color: #dbdbdb;
font-size: 11px;
line-height: 13px;
text-decoration: none;}
a.calendar:hover {
font-family: Arial;
color: #dbdbdb;
font-size: 11px;
line-height: 13px;
text-decoration: none;}
.calendar-month, calendar-month:visited {
font-family: Arial;
color: #dbdbdb;
font-size: 11px;
line-height: 13px;
padding: 5px;
background-color: #2f2f2f;
border-bottom:3px solid #1d1d1d;
border-right: 1px solid #000;
border-top: 1px solid #424242;
border-left: 1px solid #424242;}
.calendar-month:active {
font-family: Arial;
color: #dbdbdb;
font-size: 11px;
line-height: 13px;
padding: 5px;
background-color: #2f2f2f;
border-bottom:3px solid #1d1d1d;
border-right: 1px solid #000;
border-top: 1px solid #424242;
border-left: 1px solid #424242;}
.calendar-month:hover {
font-family: Arial;
color: #dbdbdb;
font-size: 11px;
line-height: 13px;
padding: 5px;
background-color: #3f3f3f;
border-bottom:3px solid #1d1d1d;
border-right: 1px solid #000;
border-top: 1px solid #424242;
border-left: 1px solid #424242;}
(sorry theres so much css) Thanks in advance =D I am doing a simple calendar. I managed to do the table with days etc. I have a problem I wish to highlight a number and the cell automatically according to the date of the day. Can Someone help please? Thanks & best regards Hello all! I wanted to ask if there is a way to specify certain width sizes for table cells in a table. The thing is that I have a table in one webpage that, if I leave the width of the TD cells unspecified, I usually end up with some cells being very wide because the text that is written inside them is very big and does not roll up automatically and other cells shrink and become very small in order for the total table not to lose its specified length. Can I set a specific width for the cell that gets filled with many words so that the contents of this cell will wrap and not extend so much? Thank you! I've got a small problem, i want to make a table cell that works as a button. I tried it this way: Code: <table border='1' width='100%' height='10%'> <tr> <a href='page.htm'> <td width='20%' height='100%'> </td> </a> But this won't work, does anybody know how I can solve this problem? |
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