trouble with percentage based table alignment

I am trying to insert a 1 cell table that spans the entire width and height of
the page, even when the user stretches or shrinks the browser window. I believe
I have to do this by setting the width and height of the table to 100%. The
problem is that the table stretches the width of the page just fine when I
stretch and shrink the browser window, but the height stays the same and is
only as tall as the cell contents. I have made sure that the table is set for
100% height and not pixels. I have also tried setting the <td> to be
valign=middle and that doesn't help.

Does anybody know how I might fix this? I am using Dreamweaver MX 2004
Education Version.

http://www.deceptivemagic.com

Setting the height of a table is not a compliant method, and is spotty at best
when working across browsers. Tables should be reserved for tabular data and
not to control layout. Use CSS to control your pages, and use tables to display
tablular data.

I apologize for that link coming up as my website....I typed:
http://apptools.com/examples/tableheight.php in the forums, but from the
Newsgroup view it came up as my site. Hmmm...


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http://www.deceptivemagic.com

Why are you posting a link to a splash page?

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"Holland87" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

http://www.deceptivemagic.com

While mostly correct, this post doesn't help, you know? Do you really think
that the OP is going to know how to do anything after reading it?

Setting the height of a table is not a compliant method, and is spotty at
best
when working across browsers.

Actually, it works as desired when pages are rendered in quirks mode, so
it's not spotty at all. But table height is not valid HTML and therefore is
not reliable to use on pages that have a valid and complete doctype.

And let's not get started on the tables for tabular data thing again....

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"eeprete" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

Setting the height of a table is not a compliant method, and is spotty at
best
when working across browsers. Tables should be reserved for tabular data
and
not to control layout. Use CSS to control your pages, and use tables to
display
tablular data.

Check this -

http://www.apptools.com/examples/tableheight.php

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"stfrancisHS" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

I am trying to insert a 1 cell table that spans the entire width and height
of
the page, even when the user stretches or shrinks the browser window. I
believe
I have to do this by setting the width and height of the table to 100%.
The
problem is that the table stretches the width of the page just fine when I
stretch and shrink the browser window, but the height stays the same and
is
only as tall as the cell contents. I have made sure that the table is set
for
100% height and not pixels. I have also tried setting the <td> to be
valign=middle and that doesn't help.

Does anybody know how I might fix this? I am using Dreamweaver MX 2004
Education Version.

Come over to NNTP and leave that problem behind! 8)

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"Holland87" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

I apologize for that link coming up as my website....I typed:
http://apptools.com/examples/tableheight.php in the forums, but from the
Newsgroup view it came up as my site. Hmmm...


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Shane H
http://www.deceptivemagic.com

Perhaps I wasn't thorough enough in my response, as with the link you provided
illustrated it can be done with CSS, which I had known already. However, why
anyone would encourage not properly setting doctypes or compliant HTML, is
beyond me. Thanks for elaborating with a more thorough response.