Hmm, you're also not setting any default vertical 
alignments. Again, don't know if that has any impact on 
things, just blathering away.

David
dvjones(at)ksbe.edu

On 25 Aug 2003, at 14:16, HWG-L wrote:

> Hmm, I saved it to my desktop and ran it through a 
> validator. You have the following line 15:
> 
> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; 
> charset=iso-8859-"15"">
> 
> The validator reports an invalid attribute "15" (note, you
> hav the 15 in quotes, it shouldn't be). Don't know if that
> has anything to do with it, but you might fix that.
> 
> There are also two "moota" tags on lines 16-17.
> 
> There are a couple of hexadecimal bgcolors missing 
> their # signs, I doubt that has anything to do with this.
> 
> David
> dvjones(at)ksbe.edu
> 
> On 25 Aug 2003, at 16:13, Shelley wrote:
> 
> >  Well, I have appeared to have botched this good.  I've
> >  tried the
> > suggestions and am working on the one below now. 
> > Putting the side nav in it's own table within the cell
> > still breaks apart the design.  The side nav is a
> > section of stacked cells containing the link images and
> > then a section of stacked cells containing images that
> > span between the two main sections (i.e., nav and text -
> > images with a shadow - cellpadding without using the
> > html :) )
> > 
> >  The work around that I've used so far is sticking a
> >  height in a blank gif
> > in the 'under nav/images' cell so that it accommodates
> > the expansion for the text section - it works but I'm
> > worried about different platforms, etc. (Horrible kludge
> > and definately fast and dirty).
> > 
> >  Any and all help appreciated - if I wasn't stuck with
> >  this design I'd do
> > something totally different but...................
> > 
> > Shelley
> > tia
> > 
> > 
> > If no one has a better idea I would try this.
> > 
> > Make the 2nd section nested table to have 1 row with two
> > data cells.  In the left cell put a table that contains
> > the side nav bar.  In the right cell put another table
> > with your text in paragraph form.  I think that will
> > keep the length of the text from stretching out the side
> > nav bar to an equal length.
> > 
> > Then put your footer info in a table below that.
> > 
> > :
> > >Sorry about that - should have mentioned that the table
> > >cells holding the side bar navigation spread apart
> > >(allowing the background to show through :) )
> > >
> > >S
> > >
> > >
> > >         I've been working on a site in a rather
> > >         piecemeal fashion over
> > > the past
> > >couple of weeks while also taking vacation time. 
> > >Needless to say, not the best way for me to tackle a
> > >project.
> > >
> > >         Site is at
> > >         http://www.internavigate.com/bcodn/template.ht
> > >         ml and
> > > the cells
> > >spread apart when the main text section gets longer.
> > >I've worked around that by adding a blank gif and
> > >adjusting it to the size of the text cell
> > but
> > >am really unhappy with this workaround.  Any
> > >suggestions greatly appreciated.  I seem to have hit a
> > >problem solving blank - too much holiday time, I guess
> > >and the odd margarita ;)
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 


 

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