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Understanding the table height

diegolaz
06-07-2012, 02:00 PM
To understand the height property...why doesn't the table, tr or div height work in this scenario?


<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title> Title </title>
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type='text/javascript' src='js/jquery.scrollTo-min.js'></script>
<script>
function scrollToAnchor(aid){
var aTag = $("a[name='"+ aid +"']");
$('html,body').animate({scrollTop: aTag.offset().top},'slow');
}
$(document).ready(function () {
$("#aID1").click(function() {
scrollToAnchor('id1');
});
$("#aID2").click(function() {
scrollToAnchor('id2');
});
$("#aID3").click(function() {
scrollToAnchor('id3');
});

});
</script>
<style type="text/css" media="screen">
html
{
height:100%;
max-height:100%;
padding:0;
margin:0;
border:0;
background:#fff;
font-size:80%;
font-family: "trebuchet ms", tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;
/* hide overflow:hidden from IE5/Mac */
/* \*/
overflow: hidden;
/* */
}
body {height:100%; max-height:100%; overflow:hidden; padding:0; margin:0; border:0;}
#content {display:block; height:100%; max-height:100%; overflow:auto; padding-left:200px; position:relative; z-index:3; word-wrap:break-word;}
#head {position:absolute; margin:0; top:0; right:18px; display:block; width:100%; height:100px; background:#fff; font-size:1em; z-index:5; color:#000; border-bottom:1px solid #000;}
#foot {position:absolute; margin:0; bottom:-1px; right:18px; display:block; width:100%; height:51px; background:#fff; color:#000; text-align:right; font-size:2em; z-index:4; border-top:1px solid #000;}
.pad1 {display:block; width:18px; height:50px; float:left;}
.pad2 {display:block; height:100px;}
#content p {padding:5px;}

</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="printhead">www.s7u.co.uk - Cutting Edge CSS</div>
<div id="head"><div class="pad1"></div>Header
<a id="aID1" href="#">ID 1</a><a id="aID2" href="#">ID 2</a><a id="aID3" href="#">ID 3</a>
</div>
<div id="content">
<a name="Top"></a>
<div class="pad2"></div>
<div style="height:100px">
<table width="600px" style="height:100px">
<tr style="height:100px">
<td>
<a name="id1"/>
<b>ID1</b>
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<a name="id2"/>
<b>ID2</b>
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<a name="id3"/>
<b>ID3</b>
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</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
<div class="pad2"></div>
</div>
<div id="foot">Footer</div>
</body>
</html>




EDIT: the content is taking the full higth instead of limiting to 100px...
sunfighter
06-07-2012, 04:29 PM
As you have discovered the content over rides the height. That's cause table are not to be used for layout and that's what it looks like what your doing here. A table with 1 row that has 1 td.

Use divs, the the height can be controlled with overflow.
PS you do not need jquery to scroll to an anchor see http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_a.asp
and http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_link_bookmark
diegolaz
06-07-2012, 10:27 PM
thanks, I also have a div in there that didn't work. I'll try with the overflow.

the jquery is for the animation on the scroll, which I haven't played with yet.

The idea is to have an are and show 1 div at a time (1 of 3), with each div filling the full height and having an animation effect on scroll.

thanks for your answer
williamxaviers
06-08-2012, 08:00 AM
Thanks for sharing fantastic information about Understanding the table height. It is very important part of the proper web designing. In web designing two ways for design table first is table tag and second is div tag this both tags are very easy to create table.
felgall
06-08-2012, 09:27 AM
In web designing two ways for design table first is table tag and second is div tag this both tags are very easy to create table.

No No No - if you have tabular data then you use the table tag. If you don't have tabular data then you work out what the content actually is and use the appropriate tag that matches the content. Only if there is no tag for that type of content do you use a div.

If you want a table-like / grid layout then you'd use the CSS commands display:table, display:table-row, and display:table-cell to make your paragraphs, lists or divs behave as if they were parts of a table - but only for the one specific media as you'd likely want the content laid out differently for other media.

Replacing table-itis with divitis is just replacing one meaningless set of tag soup with another.

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