fixing td sizes

[Robin Mason]

Hi,

I've got a table which has a set of links down the first column, each
of which is in their own <TD>...</TD>. In the second column, I have
one td which spans down the side of the links which contains the main
text on the page.

Something like this:

|------------------------------|
|link 1 |Main text in the table|
|-------| . |
|link 2 | . |
|-------| . |
|link 3 | |
|-------| |
|link 4 | |
|-------| |

[Andrew Fedoniouk]

Re: fixing td sizes

Hi, Robin.

Put your links in separate table. And insert this table in the cell.

Andrew.

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"Robin Mason" <robin@jlmason. freeserve.co.uk > wrote in message
news:9ed7fac5.0 308050639.368ee 686@posting.goo gle.com...[color=blue]
> Hi,
>
> I've got a table which has a set of links down the first column, each
> of which is in their own <TD>...</TD>. In the second column, I have
> one td which spans down the side of the links which contains the main
> text on the page.
>
> Something like this:
>
> |------------------------------|
> |link 1 |Main text in the table|
> |-------| . |
> |link 2 | . |
> |-------| . |
> |link 3 | |
> |-------| |
> |link 4 | |
> |-------| |
> .
> .
> .
>
> This is all fine and dandy until the main text becomes longer than the
> height of the links in the left hand side, like this
>
> |------------------------------|
> |link 1 |Main text in the table|
> | | . |
> |-------| . |
> | | . |
> |link 2 | . |
> | | . |
> |-------| . |
> | | . |
> |link 3 | . |
> | | . |
> |-------| . |
> | | . |
> |link 4 | . |
> | | . |
> |-------| . |
> .
> .
> .
>
> It stretches all of the link boxes down the left hand side - which is
> most undesirable. I added an empty cell beneath the links, and set the
> height in each of the link td's, but they still resize when the main
> text is too long. Can I force them to stay the same size?
>
> Is that at all clear ?!?
>
> Any help appreciated,
> Rob.[/color]

[Michael Fesser]

Re: fixing td sizes

Robin Mason wrote:
[color=blue]
>I've got a table which has a set of links down the first column, each
>of which is in their own <TD>...</TD>.[/color]

Very bad. It's better to use an unordered list for that.
[color=blue]
>In the second column, I have
>one td which spans down the side of the links which contains the main
>text on the page.[/color]

<table><tr>
<td id="nav">
<ul>
<li><a href="...">...</a></li>
<li><a href="...">...</a></li>
....
</ul>
</td><td id="content">
....
</td>
</tr></table>

Then style the navigation list with CSS:

#nav ul {margin: 0; padding: 0; list-style-type: none; ...}

It's also possible to do that without using tables (with an absolutely
positioned or floated navigation list).

Micha

[Stephen Poley]

Re: fixing td sizes

On 5 Aug 2003 07:39:25 -0700, robin@jlmason.f reeserve.co.uk (Robin
Mason) wrote:
[color=blue]
>I've got a table which has a set of links down the first column, each
>of which is in their own <TD>...</TD>. In the second column, I have
>one td which spans down the side of the links which contains the main
>text on the page.[/color]
....[color=blue]
>It stretches all of the link boxes down the left hand side - which is
>most undesirable. I added an empty cell beneath the links, and set the
>height in each of the link td's, but they still resize when the main
>text is too long. Can I force them to stay the same size?[/color]

It just so happens that I knocked up something like that recently. It
uses CSS and is simpler than using tables:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/layout3.html

HTH

--
Stephen Poley

http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/

[Robin Mason]

Re: fixing td sizes

<snip>
[color=blue]
>
> It just so happens that I knocked up something like that recently. It
> uses CSS and is simpler than using tables:
> http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/layout3.html
>
> HTH[/color]

Thanks very much to all who responded! I'm in the process of making
the switch to using CSS, and have successfully sorted it out.
Interesting to see other approaches to the problem.

Many thanks!

Rob.