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skarnes
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Table and cell height quesiton - 3/23/2002 12:29:49
I'm working on a site where I want to use red lines to seperate sections of my page. The lines need to be about 5 or 10 pixels high and be both vertical and horizontal. For the horizontal lines I fist tried the <hr> tag in Frontpage which worked fine until I noticed that Netscape 6 didnt show the red color. Then I tried to use a table cell with a height of 5 pixels and I used a red background color but the cell disregarded my 5 pixels and seems to go no smaller that about 20 pixels no matter what i tried. I made a 5 and a 10 pixel high red image and used that as a background image in a cell and I'm getting tiling. I'm able to uses plain images but the problem is they expand with different resolutions so it makes precision difficult. I guess back to my original question, can table cells be made to work with heights as low as 5 or 10 pixels? Or is there a better way to present lines on a web site that are colored and both horizontal and vertical?
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skarnes
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RE: Table and cell height quesiton - 3/23/2002 14:48:55
Hi Katherine, thanks for the quick replay but i'm still a tad confused. I imported the gif and changed height to 5 pixels used a cell background color of red and it looked good it frontpage preview but once saved and viewed via I.E.browser it was 20 pixels high again.Below is code I used.
<tr>
<td height="5" bgcolor="#FF0000">
<img border="0" src="h20transgif.gif" width="10" height="5">
</td>
</tr>
Am I suppose to import a red line image 5 pixels high into the cell?
I can do this but due to browser resize the cell bgcolor or even cell bgpicture would be better but i can't get either to work at the 5 pixel height.
Thaks for Your help.....
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abbeyvet
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RE: Table and cell height quesiton - 3/23/2002 16:59:33
Sometimes that will happen because the closing </td> tag is on a different line to the image tag. Try changing
quote:
<td height="5" bgcolor="#FF0000">
<img border="0" src="h20transgif.gif" width="10" height="5">
</td>
to
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<td height="5" bgcolor="#FF0000">
<img border="0" src="h20transgif.gif" width="10" height="5"></td>
Another reason may be that there is another cell in the row. If that is the case you need to put the transparent gif into all the cells or else merge them.
Katherine
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PBailey
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RE: Table and cell height quesiton - 3/23/2002 17:05:59
Katherine,
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In the case of a vertical line be sure that you do not have cells in rows above or below that will prevent the cell shrinking to fit.
Sometimes I have problems getting the line row to shrink even with the gif until I delete the cells above and below and start over. What in those cells will keep the line cell from shrinking?
skarnes,
Just put the .gif in and the row should shrink to fit. I don't know why but it seems to work more consistantly if I put the gif in then do cell properties and set the color. Maybe Katherine can help on that.
Thanks,
Paula
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abbeyvet
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RE: Table and cell height quesiton - 3/23/2002 17:28:25
Paula I think our posts may have overlapped anyway but I would be pretty sure the problem is the </td> tag being on the line below the image tag. They really must be on the same line or a larger space than the image size is maintained.
I tend to go in a put the opening <td>, the image tag and the closing </td> all on the same line to be sure.
Katherine
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Edited by - abbeyvet on 03/23/2002 17:29:32
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PBailey
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RE: Table and cell height quesiton - 3/23/2002 18:49:58
Thanks Katherine. I think we did overlap. I'll do that from now on.
Paula
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skarnes
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RE: Table and cell height quesiton - 3/23/2002 19:14:05
Thanks Katherine and Paula! The problem must of been the </td> tag. It's funny because when I first tried Katherine's original solution, Netscape showed the line correctly but I.E. didn't. Thats a first for me.
A favor in return, I came accross a free seminar series put on by Microsoft that may be of interest to some of you. See link below.
http://www.msbigday.com/
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Paula
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RE: Table and cell height quesiton - 3/24/2002 3:49:45
I love this forum. I've been trying to figure this problem out for a long time. I couldn't understand why sometimes my thin lines just wouldn't be thin. Thanks Katherine! Thanks skarnes for asking the question.
Paula
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