Bob Talbot <BobTalbot@st-abbs.fsnet.co.uk> writes: > > <TABLE WIDTH = "300"> > If you really want to support *ALL* browsers surely you should avoid > the use of deprecated attributes and tags? > > The most common kludge (though not deprecated) is to include a tiny > (byte-wise) transparent gif shown 1 pixel tall and 300 pixels wide. > There, it stays where it is. > > HTML though was never intended to guarantee that people saw exactly > what you see. No. Since the window size isn't fixed, if you want a box filling about half the width of the window (25% space on the left, 25% space on the right), the way to do it is to specify width="50%". This isn't deprecated except for css fanatics, and css is a badly designed, and even worsely implemented mess, so better avoided where possible. (Bob, I think specifying a table width like this really does work in about all browsers - as long as you aren't arguing with Netscrape about what it is that it is 50% _of_. More finely honed numbers like 98% often lead to problems.) Brian Chandler ---------------- geo://Sano.Japan.Planet_3 Jigsaw puzzles from Japan at: http://imaginatorium.org/shop/
