Dreamweaver valign problem...

DaveyBoy · 02-11-2007, 02:45 AM

I'm building my new web site in tables (yes, i know..) and I have my content area ready to add the content, with the valign for the cell set to 'top'. In Dreamweaver 8, it is showing the text at the top of the cell but when I preview in browsers (both IE and FF) it is centred vertically in the cell. It only will move to the top if I literally fill the area with text or adds mulitple line breaks. Has anybody had this problem before?

Thanks.

IslaScotts · 02-11-2007, 04:20 AM

Yes and unfortunately I said "screw you table" and just used CSS instead. I know one thing that messes up table valign is percentages for border and width like:

Code:

<tr> 
   <td width="90%" valign="top"> 
   <table border=10% width='100%'>

It would have to be something like:

Code:

<tr> 
   <td width="90%" valign="top"> 
   <table border=1 width='100%'>

I doubt that helps.. but it is all I can muster

DaveyBoy · 02-11-2007, 04:57 AM

Thanks Isla, i don't think I have borders on there actually but I will double-check!

It's so frustrating!!!

IslaScotts · 02-11-2007, 10:35 PM

Oh hey.. if your still looking to fix the table thing I ran across something about it ... here ... while I was looking something else up on tables. It tells you what attributes you can use, but more importantly the ones you can't they usually give a why and an alternate method for accomplishing the same thing. It's an "about.com" page.. which i don't personally like... but hey it was useful!