Navigation Bar Using Table Question

[bearcat99]

When I create a left-hand side vertical navigation bar for my website in a table where the second (main content)column spans down a row so that it will be read by search engine robots before the nav bar content, I can't get the nav bar content to start at the top of the cell in Netscape. IE is better but not perfect.

What I'm trying to do is explained more coherently at <SNIP>.

I have the navigation cell set to display vertically at "top" but Netscape puts the content down in the middle of the cell column. Am I missing something here?

Thanks for any help.

[edited by: BlobFisk at 8:39 am (utc) on April 18, 2005]
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[benni_203]

That is a problem and I had the same situation. My problem was that the longer the page got, the more the left-pane content shifted down but only in one browser not in the other. It freaked me out.

What I finally did is to nest the navigation content in another table inside the left-hand column and that worked somehow.

Good Luck.
Benni

[BlobFisk]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld bearcat99!

What about using a CSS based layout to serve your content up first, then your side bar and then your navigation? This may be the most effective way...

Unless you want to support NN4.x! ;)

[bearcat99]

Thanks for the suggestions.

What benni_203 describes is exactly the problem. I'll try the table-within-table nesting idea. Thanks.

I'm not experienced enough yet to use Cascading Style Sheets but hope to get there in time. I know they will also cut down on the amount of repetitive changes I'm having to do now.