valign='middle' not working in IE?

Hi,

On this page

http://easyrx.us/public/register/start

I have a table (with the burnt orange background, to the right) within
a table cell. The background color of the cell is purple, which
you'll probably be able to see on PC IE 7. What I want is to
vertically center that table within the table cell, but specifying the
"valign='middle'" property in the parent table cell doesn't seem to be
doing anything.

Ideally, shouldn't doing so make part of the purple bg appear both
above and below the table?

Thanks for any advice, - Dave

"laredotornado" <laredotornado (AT) zipmail (DOT) com> wrote

Hi,

On this page

http://easyrx.us/public/register/start

I have a table (with the burnt orange background, to the right) within
a table cell. The background color of the cell is purple, which
you'll probably be able to see on PC IE 7. What I want is to
vertically center that table within the table cell, but specifying the
"valign='middle'" property in the parent table cell doesn't seem to be
doing anything.

Ideally, shouldn't doing so make part of the purple bg appear both
above and below the table?

You could just remove the orange bit. Nobody is going to be able to read it
anyway at 10 pixels.

Since it *is* pixels it does not enlarge in IE without using the
accessibility options. In modern browsers when the text is enlarged the
entire layout falls apart.

That is one serious misuse of tables. Nested at least 5 deep. No wonder the
browser gets confused :-)

--
Richard.

That is one serious misuse of tables. Nested at least 5 deep. No wonder the
browser gets confused :-)

Richard, I don't disagree about the _misuse_ of tables, but
(reasonably simple) tables can be nested rather deeply without
problems (as far as I can tell). As a test I made an interesting
layout at: http://www.garypeek.com/web/tablemadness.htm

Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:

However, you must agree that your example would be a maintenance
headache. Or dare I say nightmare?

Agreed. Actually I have a small web site that uses such a
layout, but I have only a few web sites that I maintain,
so it is not much of an issue. A pro, working on many/large
sites for a living, would not do such a thing.

Please don't strip attributes. Thanks for your consideration.

Oops, sorry, don't know what you mean.

Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:

Did you erroneously erase rf's?

No, I just tend to trim aggressively.
Your suggestion is noted. Thanks.

"Gary Peek" <mylastname (AT) mycompanyname (DOT) com> wrote

That is one serious misuse of tables. Nested at least 5 deep. No wonder
the browser gets confused :-)

Richard, I don't disagree about the _misuse_ of tables,

Even when it looks like this?

http://barefile.com.au/register.jpg

It would be difficult to cause a modern design to break like this when font
size is increased.

--
Richard.

"rf" <rf (AT) invalid (DOT) com> wrote

"Gary Peek" <mylastname (AT) mycompanyname (DOT) com> wrote in message
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That is one serious misuse of tables. Nested at least 5 deep. No wonder
the browser gets confused :-)

Richard, I don't disagree about the _misuse_ of tables,

excess snippage repaired.

but (reasonably simple) tables can be nested rather deeply without
problems (as far as I can tell).

Even when it looks like this?

http://barefile.com.au/register.jpg

It would be difficult to cause a modern design to break like this when
font size is increased.

--
Richard.

rf wrote:

"Gary Peek" wrote in message
Richard, I don't disagree about the _misuse_ of tables,

Even when it looks like this?
http://barefile.com.au/register.jpg

I agree, they made it complex enough and deeply nested enough
to not work well. I guess my examples are simple enough to
(usually) not do that.