problem with aligning a table cell top

hi there,

i have a problem with a table cell in my html code. well first my table
looks like the following:

<table width="748" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"
bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<tr>
<td width="374" height="252" colspan="2" valign="top"> CONTENT 1
</td>
<td width="374" colspan="2" rowspan="2" valign="top"> CONTENT 2
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="187" colspan="2" valign="top" class="bg_green1"><img
src="images/spacer.gif" width="1" height="1" alt=""></td>
</tr>
</table>

the table cell in the second table row should align top without any space to
the first table cell (containing CONTENT 1, an image).
i can't seem to get this table cell aligned top. tried a lot but could not
find any solution....

the real example can be found at
http://www.graphix.at/update_consult...nt_rechts.html

any help would be appreciated a lot!

thank you very much in advance and best greetings,

martin

(if you would like to e-mail me please remove NOSPA^M from my mail adress -
martin.fuchs (AT) NOSPAMgraphix (DOT) at)

Martin Fuchs wrote:

i have a problem with a table cell in my html code.

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http://www.graphix.at/update_consult...nt_rechts.html

This looks like a very familier news posting... Please direct your attention
towards: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/xpost.html

But that isn't tabular data, so you shouldn't be using a table.
http://www.allmyfaqs.com/faq.pl?Tableless_layouts

--
David Dorward <http://dorward.me.uk/>

David Dorward wrote in message ...

But that isn't tabular data, so you shouldn't be using a table.
http://www.allmyfaqs.com/faq.pl?Tableless_layouts

It's all very well directing people to websites containing lots of comples
explanation, but it doesn't *answer* his question, even though you think
you might be doing the right thing.

There's nothing wrong with using tables for what he's doing. It's worked ok
in the past and present, and will presumably work well in the future.

Tables are dead easy to get right. CSS is much more complex, hence all the
frequent queries on the HTML newsgroups "Help - My CSS doen't work in ...."

"Steve R." wrote in message ...

Do you mean like this ...

well thats what i mean if the table cell with the green background valigns
top with the table cell containing the image. that would work but as far as
i know the height attribute in a table tag is not valid html 4.0... do you
know what i mean?

thank you very much for your reply steve!

Steve R. wrote:

It's all very well directing people to websites containing lots of comples
explanation, but it doesn't *answer* his question, even though you think
you might be doing the right thing.

This isn't a helpdesk. I am not paid to answer people's questions here.

There's nothing wrong with using tables for what he's doing. It's worked
ok in the past and present, and will presumably work well in the future.

That is a debat I have no intention of getting in to right now.

Tables are dead easy to get right. CSS is much more complex, hence all the
frequent queries on the HTML newsgroups "Help - My CSS doen't work in
...."

And I'm not going to get into this argument again either.

--
David Dorward <http://dorward.me.uk/>