[vox-tech] Fwd: css: cell width and height

[Joshua Morris]

On 12/16/06, Bill Kendrick <nbs at sonic.net> wrote:
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> From: Peter Salzman <p at cbreak.com>
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> I'm always amazed that I aced through a year of quantum field theory but
> CSS
> continually baffles me to no end.
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> If I have some html tables, and set the height and width CSS property for
> each td element, is it guaranteed that each cell in each table will be the
> exact same height and width under all circumstances?
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> If not, is there some way of saying "Look here, browser.  As Zeus is my
> witness, you will make this cell 3em by 2em no matter what!"



I would give the td sections an id to separate them from the other td tags
such as

<table>
     <td>foo</td>
     <td id=3D"special">bar</td>

then in you css you would have
table {height: 1px; width: 2px;}
#special {height: 3em; width: 2em;}

Hope that helps,
Joshua


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