LESSON 8b -- TABLES -- RELATIVE SIZE

In this table, I am experimenting with table sizes and cell sizes being specified as percentages

Specifying widths as per centages seems to be working okay. In the >TABLE< tag the width attribute is a percentage of the width of the window on the screen.

I am still experimenting with what height="xx%" means, if anything. So far -- it seems to specify a per centage of the screen height when used in the initial >TABLE< specification. I have to check further on how it works in the nested, placemarker tables (in my far right column). Varying the height percentages in those placemarker tables does not seem to have any effects on the proportion of the over-all table allocated to the rows.

Though my two browsers allocate very different heights to the rows, neither seems to respond to changes in my height="xx%" specification in the nested tables.

Using percentages in the width attributes on the colgroup tag seems to establish the relative widths (in Netscape, not in IE 4.5), but the sum of the percentages does not seem to add up to the width of the overall table relative to the screen width. I thought specifying the overall table width as a percent (equal to the sum of the percentages in the colgroups tags) would correct this, but it did not.

I did learn that the IE4.5 browser will truncate the contents of a data cell if I do not allocate enough space for the intended contents. I had to enlarge the length of the table as (to ~120%) to get this text displayed in full.