automatic "height" sizing of leftside navigation table

[kvanbeurden]

imagine a two column page, each column is a table. is there a way for the left column to scale equally with the height of the right column when the right column's contents get longer or shorter? i am trying to avoid frames and yet remain stubborn about layout!

please excuse me if this has been previously addressed...thanks for the help!

[pageoneresults]

Hello kvanbeurden and welcome to the forums. < Can I say that?

Based on my knowledge with tables, the only way to achieve this is to insert two cells within one table. Those two cells will now grow with one another. If the left cell has more content, the right cell will extend downward with it because it is now part of the enclosing table. Does that sound right?

Here is what the code would look like. I've added cellpadding and cellspacing of 5 so you can see the tables and cells if you are using a WYSIWYG editing program.

<table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="5" width="100%">
<tr>
<td width="100%">
<table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="5" width="100%">
<tr>
<td width="50%"></td>
<td width="50%"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>

[kvanbeurden]

the general drift is that i am using server side includes to generate the webpage as pieces. this way, i could update simply the content cell of the webpage while everything else remained constant.

but the issue occurs when the material in the "content" cell is different day in and out; i am trying to not lose the "look and layout" (though i am not obsessing over those items either)of how the leftside navbar merges with the page footer.

a little over the top?

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