Setting the size of a web page...

wyebird

Hi
What I would like to do is set a page so it fills the browser on any monitor size.

I thought that maybe I could insert an single cell table and set the table width to 100% and make all layers relative rather than fixed??

This doesn't seem to work though and I can't seem to find an answer, apart from don't do it lol.

Can anybody suggest anything?

Thanks

jamalfatty

Off top of my head, use a <div></div> as a container for the whole page, and set it's width to 100% either inline or in the CSS if your using an external stylesheet

FreheitOverture

For the love of God don't use tables! :eek:

M4RKM

shame i can only thank people once, or i'd sit here clicking thanks for FreheitOverture's message just there til my beer ran out...

and i've only just opened it..

tables are evil for design, and only useful for tabular data (and in lazy cases forms!)

John_Gray

I can see the objections to frames, but border-free tables seem to me to be a good way of overcoming some of the more glaring deficiencies of HTML with regard to positioning text.

What's your solutions(s)?!

chunter

FreheitOverture wrote: »

For the love of God don't use tables! :eek:

Is there such a thing as web design Snobbery?

PROLIANT

chunter wrote: »

Is there such a thing as web design Snobbery?

Not snobbery, it is illegal as far as business goes as blind or visually impaired users can’t read web pages with their software, as for personal use it is just bad practice and poor coding.

john_s_2

At the time of writing the source code for this thread has nearly 50 tables.

PROLIANT

http://www.mcu.org.uk/articles/tables.html

martindow

PROLIANT wrote: »

it is illegal as far as business goes as blind or visually impaired users can’t read web pages with their software, as for personal use it is just bad practice and poor coding.

I think visual impairment software copes with tables OK. I've had good comments about my site (which uses tables). Multitudes of nested tables probably do cause problems.

The difficulty is that some browsers mainly IE do not render CSS positioning properly and hacks and strange coding can be necessary to avoid the design collapsing. A fairly simple table in my opinion is an easy way to get layout and does not give too much bloated code.

PasturesNew

Yes tables are to be avoided if at all possible. However, for many people (including those calling themselves web designer/developers) the leap from there to a div based, css driven site is often too much with browser compatibility issues -v- time/cost.

I'd say: if you have the time to "do it properly" then take the time to learn about divs/containers and do it that way, along with all the extra cross-browser compatibility testing.

If you just want to achieve a web page, to display information, and you only know how to use tables, then go for it.