HTML 4.01 Transitional questions

[twist]

I want to be 4.01 Transitional but am not sure if it's possible. I am having a tough time finding a good website that covers all this so if anybody here knows of one that would be great.

Is there any alternative to using these tags?

topmargin="0" leftmargin="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0"

My height attribute works fine in css unless I try and use the height="100%" by itself in css. My pages break, but if I put the height="100%" in the html it works fine. Any help?

and finally, is there any way around the errors that my flash tags are generating. Is there some type of way of telling the parser that the following is a object or am I just out of luck.

All my pages look fine in Opera 7.21 & IE 6.0. My only probelm is with NN 7 & Mozilla 1.5. On pages using the height tags the page will load the images and then continue loading the text. The text will extend the length of the page but the loaded images will stay put. It's only a cosmetic problem. If I reload the page everything looks fine. Should I add a javascript preloader of some sort (for NN browsers only) that will preload the pages to keep this from happening or is there another fix that anyone knows of?

[pageoneresults]

Hello twist, Welcome to WebmasterWorld!

I'll answer part of your question...

topmargin="0" leftmargin="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0"

The above can be replaced with this in your CSS...

body{margin:0;padding:0;}

[bofe]

try this, it has helped me before.
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[twist]

I could have sworn I had tried doing it that way before and it didn't work but anyway thanks a million.

body{margin:0;padding:0;}

worked like a charm :)