[Zope] Strange Problem With Inline Frame (Probably OT)

Tino Wildenhain tino@ertragsberater.de
Sun, 9 Feb 2003 20:21:37 +0100


Hi,

On Sun, 09 Feb 2003 13:18:35 -0400
beno <zope@thewebsons.com> wrote:

> At 09:05 AM 2/9/2003 -0800, you wrote:
> >Try setting the middle <td> tag to width=100%.  It's a kludge, but one 
> >that will get you where you're trying to go.  Think of it as "100% of all 
> >the space left over after the minimum width of the two outer cells has 
> >been allocated."
> 
> Didn't work :(
> 
> 
> >You may also want to think about laying out the page with <div> tags and 
> >CSS instead of using tables.  They're quite a bit more versatile.
> 
> Yeah, but it's sloppy. I could easily place things using *position: 
> absolute*, but that, to me, is a kludge when a table should_work_just_fine. 
> But it doesn't. Why not???

A table is for arranging tabular data. Its _not_ for layout. I'd suggest
CSS too. See http://www.alistapart.com/  for some nice ideas.

Regards
Tino

> 
> Any more ideas?
> TIA,
> beno
> 
> 
> >And no, this has nothing to do with Zope. :-)
> >
> >HTH,
> >
> >Dylan
> >
> >At 07:14 AM 2/9/2003, beno wrote:
> >>Hi;
> >>I'm attempting to use an inline frame in a table. For some reason, the 
> >>rendering engine (IE6.0) *insists* on putting the inline frame, which is 
> >>the second of three <td> elements, proportionately very close to the 
> >>right edge of the target area, despite the fact that I set align to left. 
> >>Why? I'm not sure if this is due to IE or Zope, but there's a gremlin 
> >>somewhere! I've made the inline frame ludicrously small for illustration 
> >>purposes. Here's the URL:
> >>http://web.vi/viking/1024/c/s/x/en-us/index.pt
> >>TIA,
> >>beno
> >>
> >>
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