Re: xhtml and table height = "100%"
by "Captain F.M. O'Lary" <ctfuzzy(at)canopy.net>
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Thu, 14 Mar 2002 16:04:20 -0500 |
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"Hall, Richard H." <rhall(at)umr.edu>, hwg-basics(at)hwg.org |
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Richard do you mean a way other than:
<.center>bla,bla,bla</center />
~or~
<.div align="center">bla,bla,bla</div />
~or~
<.p align="center"></p />
??
Frankly, I'm spacing out on which one of those is allowed under the XHML
strict. I've been fixing FrontPage ^&$% all day, and my already impaired
brain is . . . .
;-)
Fuzzy.
At 09:50 AM 3/14/02 , Hall, Richard H. wrote:
>To place stuff in the center of the page I have always used a trick I leaned
>a long time ago where I make a 100% 100% table and then use align with a row
>
><table height="100%" border="0" width="100%">
> <tr>
> <td align="center" valign="middle">
>
>Recently, I have been trying to convert pages to xhtml and at the top of my
>pages I put
>
><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
>"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
> > >I found that my old trick was not working and systematically figured
out >that the reason was that the height=100% in the table tag was not
working, >and, further I figured out the culprit was: >
>"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> > >... because
if I removed it the 100% height worked again. > >Questions: > >1) Any idea
why this occured and how to get around it? >2) Are there other methods
(simple would be best) of putting stuff in the >absolute middle of a page?
> >... thanks .. Richard > > >********************************************
>Richard H. Hall, PhD >Associate Professor, Information Science and
Technology >Director, Media Design and Assessment Laboratory
>http://www.umr.edu/~rhall >rhall(at)umr.edu
>******************************************** >
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