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---- Layers AND tables

toolman - 9:07 pm on May 4, 2001 (gmt 0)


In the HTML, the body table comes first, with the primary content of the page, then the header and footer are called by SSI at the end of the HTML, and positioned at the top and bottom of the page via CSS/layers

The only problem with the middle floating is the possibility of the body text spilling out of bounds and flowing over the footer *if*

  • Someone is using WebTV
  • They have the default settings altered on their browser that will somehow overide the css sheet.

    I have struggled with this again and again and concluded that the footer must be attached to the bottom of the body table so that both can "float" proportionately together.

    By using tables inside layers you allow for this movement *both ways* up and down. Netscape and Konquerer tend to be smaller in text rendering. No matter what the height:xxxpx tag is set to in the css sheet the table inside the layer will stretch to accomodate the increase in text size.

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