HTML - Ttable Span And Length Glitch

I am updating this groups old school website built with tables etc. The main images display to the left in Mozilla and centered in IE.

http://www.sevenhawaii.com/

I am assuming, in this case MF is actually displaying it correctly. Does anyone have an idea of a quick fix?

I haven't worked with tables in a long time.

Mahalo,

MJ

Hi All,
Is there any maximum length for tooltip for html tags?
How can I determine the possible max length?

Rahul....

hello, new member here so hiya!

I have a site and I have a div containing all the page. At first I gave it a height just so I could put CSS in and see what it's like. After I have taken out the height though, the div shrinks to like 1 pixel. Why isn't it as long as it's containing divs - including left column, main section, footer?

Many thanks

Hi. I have a very discrete light blue color in the background from a previous template. It ends about halfway through the bottom area and I'd like to extend it throughout the entire page without moving/overwriting anything else please.

www.movehumanityforward.com

Thank you

I have a menu made up of one div and within that div are more divs to make up the separate menu items. I am trying to add a background colour to the holding div but it's not having any effect. When I investigate the div order in web developer it shows that it's not extending to the height of the menu divs inside it. Please help. It's menu_nav I am trying to put a background on.

HTML:

HTML Code:

<div id="menu_nav">
            <div class="mainMenu">
                <a href="#">HOME</a>
            </div>
            <div class="mainMenu">
            
                <a  href="services.html" onmouseover="mopen('servicesSub')" onmouseout="mclosetime()">SERVICES</a>
                <span id="servicesSub" onmouseover="mcancelclosetime()" onmouseout="mclosetime()">
                    <a href="#">Website Production</a>
                    <a href="#">Hosting &amp; Domains</a>
                    <a href="services.html#design">Design &amp; Branding</a>
                    <a href="video.html">Video Production</a>
                    <a href="#">Interactive Media</a>
                    
                </span>
            </div>
            <div class="mainMenu">
                <a href="portfolio.html" onmouseover="mopen('portSub')" onmouseout="mclosetime()">PORTFOLIO</a>
                <span id="portSub" 
                    onmouseover="mcancelclosetime()" 
                    onmouseout="mclosetime()">
               
                <a href="portfolio.html#websites">Websites</a>
                        <a href="portfolio.html#programs">Programs</a>
                <a href="#">Video</a>
                <a href="#">Animation</a>
                        <a href="#">Design</a>
                <a href="#">Web solutions</a>
                
                </span>
            </div>
            <div class="mainMenu">
                <a href="info.html" onmouseover="mopen('aboutSub')" onmouseout="mclosetime()">INFO</a>
                 <span id="aboutSub" onmouseover="mcancelclosetime()" onmouseout="mclosetime()">
                     <a href="prices.html">Prices</a>
                     <a href="sitemap.html">Sitemap</a>
                     <a href="aboutUs.html">About Us</a>
                    <a href="contact.html">Contact</a>
                 </span>
            </div>
        </div>

CSS:

Code:

* MAIN MENU NAVIGATION*/

#menu_nav a, #servicesSubMenu a
{
    text-decoration:none;
    color:black;
    
}

#menu_nav
{
      width:950px;
    background-color:#E6E6E6;
  height:auto;
    margin-top:0px;
  
    font-size:11pt;
	margin:auto;
}


.mainMenu
{
    float:left;
    float: left;
    margin: 0px 75px 0px 75px;
      background-color:#E6E6E6;
    line-height:30px;
}

.mainMenu a
{	
    line-height:20px;
    display: block;
    font-size:11pt;
    text-align: left;
    text-decoration: none;
    background-color:#E6E6E6;
    
}

#menu_nav a:hover, #footer a:hover, #left_menu_column a:hover
{
    color:RGB(5,127,204);
}


/*DROPDOWN MENU*/
#servicesSub, #portSub, #aboutSub
{
    visibility:hidden;
    position:absolute
}


#servicesSub a, #portSub a, #aboutSub a
{
    width:150px;
    border-bottom:1px solid white;
    color:grey;
      padding-left:4px;
    padding-right:4px;
	padding:5px;
}

Please take a look at this page: http://lifeengineering.org/

Try out the menu links and see what I'm talking about. The "short" pages shift horizontally. In other words, if the div block with the content doesn't reach the bottom of the browser window, then it's rendered in a different horizontal position. So, changing the pages through the menu makes the pages appear to "jump".

NOTE: You'll need a reasonably big resolution to see what I'm talking about (e.g. 1152 x 864+).

Any suggestions on how to correct this? Is there a way to pad blank spaces at the end of my content in the div block to ensure that it always reaches the end of the browser window? Or something similar?

------
Issue #2: My background isn't ideal. I like the rainbow, but I'd like to change it.

If I wanted to make the rainbow arc appear stationary as I scroll the page (i.e. to have the upper left arc of the rainbow always appear on the upper left corn of the screen), how would I do it?

Any other suggestions, artistically, with respect to the page background?

Thank you kindly!

hi,

I have this:<form >
<input id="Email" maxlength="40" name="Email" size="40" type="text" value=""><br />
<input id="pwd" maxlength="40" name="pwd" size="40" type="password" value="">
<label for="Submit"> </label>
<input id="Submit" name="Submit" type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>

In Safari and Firefox, the two boxes look the same length, you can see from diff_ff.jpg, but in IE, it looks different(please see diff.jpg), if I change "password" to "text" they will look the same in length, any solution to this? Thanks,

A.C.

This is one of these things where you probably should just go to bed and forget all the confusion.

My question: How the heck can you specify the length of the option field for a drop town list? I am sure ther is an embarrasingly simple answer.

Thanks a lot and good night!

How do I figure out the lenght of the page (content, not browser window) so that I can make all of my regions line up at the bottom? I noticed that % in the height attribute is related to the window not content. I have also tried auto, but that is different for different content. My page has an outside region, a left nav bar and a content region, and I don't know how to make the bottom line up without tables.

Sorry if this is confusing. Thanks in advance.

Hi, I'm writing a website using tables (0 border and space etc.) so that things don't move around on different computers and browsers.

However, I've run into a bit of trouble with a particular cell. The one in questions is my navigation menu. I have it written in php as a separate page and used the include tag to load it onto the index. It consists of a table of height 600 and a single column with a couple of cells.

Now, from my reasoning, the the 600 table height of the nagivation menu/page should easily fit into the 600 cell height of it's space on the index. This is reflected when I view the page using IE - all of the border/frame images that I had made went together perfectly. However, when I view the page with FireFox, the navigation menu seems to be too short in that the first navigation cell does not immediately appear after the top border line. There is a blank white space. Also, it seems to have stretched that particular row because the right most border on the index, which is not connected to anything else and is it's own image, is centerized so that there is white space left (indicating the cell was incremented height wise).

Does anyone know if this is a fixable discrepancy?

A link to the test page is: VA Test Page

I can provide a link to the menu page if it's needed...

Anxiously awaiting a reply whether it's related or not

Ok I know this isn't really a HTML issue, but to avoid complex clientside pixel-counting of fonts I've thought of something far more simple. I need to limit the length of a string to stop it wrapping. The first step is to limit the string's length in characters, using the following php script:

PHP Code:
function trim_string($string) {
  $trim_string = '...';
  $chars = 55;

  $chars_adjusted = $chars - strlen($trim_string);
  if (strlen($string) > $chars) {
    $string = substr($string,0,$chars_adjusted);
    $string .= $trim_string;
  }
  return $string;
} 


Fine, no problem. Now however the strings are not all of equal length because of differences in length of each character (see the warmdebate.com homepage for my debacle). I thought that a relatively simple solution would be to simple use some sort of CSS or HTML wizardry to stretch the trimmed string to a fixed length (like full alignment, only for a non-wrapped string).

Since this doesn't involve pixel counting or anything like that I figure it should be doable in CSS or HTML. Also, if there are any standard solutions to this other than what I'm proposing please let me know!

hi
My code is-

<HTML>
<HEAD></HEAD>
<BODY>
<TABLE>
<TR><TD>
<SELECT NAME="Date">
<OPTION>1</OPTION>
<OPTION>2</OPTION>
:
:
<OPTION>30</OPTION>
<OPTION>31</OPTION>
</TD></TR>
</TABLE>
</BODY>
</HTML>

it will show the numbers from 1 to 31 in the drop down with long scrollbar.
My problem is - I want show only 10 numbers.User need to scroll and select other numbers.
Is it possible?

Hi,
I'd like to ask a newbie question.
I've Googled this to death but as always there isn't a single view so I thought I'd ask the experts here.
I have a piece of information - it doesn't really matter what it is but it is accompanied by an image. With the increase use of css sprites, I know find myself using background-image to set the image.
The overall effect would look like this <image> some text.
This needs to go inline and have a fixed height so that the image shows. There are also other bits of information on the same line.
Do I make the containing unit a DIV and float it or make it a SPAN and use display:block? I don't particularly wan't to use display:inline on a DIV because it's not supported correctly in IE.
What would you do in this case?

Thanks

John

If you want to download a variable length text file, what would be the correct http headers to use?

Hi,
I am new in web designing. I need your guidance. I want to break a word if it is longer than table width. May be I am not good at Engilsh. So I'll explain it using example. Following is my code.

Code:

<html>
<body>
<table align="justify" width="100" border"3">
<tr>
<td>
TE-sdf-sdf-hkjd
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

As here you can see the word "TE-sdf-sdf-hkjd" length is more than 100px. So the width of table becomes more than 100px. I want to break the word and fix the width of table to 100px. How can I achieve that? Waiting for your reply.