NewB question Please Help

Using CSS "height" doesn't work with eg Mozilla.
I understand that tabels are supposedly not to be used.
So how does one create an area with width and height?

Adrian wrote:

Using CSS "height" doesn't work with eg Mozilla.

Yes it does. You might be applying it incorrectly, or expecting behaviour
other then which the CSS specification states. Its hard to say without you
providing a URI.

I understand that tabels are supposedly not to be used.

Tables are supposed to be used ... for tabular data. They are not (and never
have been) supposed to be abused (e.g. for layout).

So how does one create an area with width and height?

There are several ways, which is the right way depends on a number of
factors. Typically not applying any CSS and allowing the box to size
depending on its content is a good choice, your circumstances may differ.

Incidently, alt.html.tags is a very low traffic group, you are likely to get
more (and good) responses in alt.html,
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets and
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html.

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"David Dorward" <dorward (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote

Adrian wrote:

Using CSS "height" doesn't work with eg Mozilla.

Yes it does. You might be applying it incorrectly, or expecting behaviour
other then which the CSS specification states. Its hard to say without you
providing a URI.

I understand that tabels are supposedly not to be used.

Tables are supposed to be used ... for tabular data. They are not (and
never
have been) supposed to be abused (e.g. for layout).

So how does one create an area with width and height?

There are several ways, which is the right way depends on a number of
factors. Typically not applying any CSS and allowing the box to size
depending on its content is a good choice, your circumstances may differ.

Incidently, alt.html.tags is a very low traffic group, you are likely to
get
more (and good) responses in alt.html,
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets and
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html.

--
David Dorward <http://blog.dorward.me.uk/> <http://dorward.me.uk/
Home is where the ~/.bashrc is

I have discovered how to do it. Thank you for your response.
Adrian.