Quick html (visual studio) question

[Darg]

I'm designing a website for a college project and no matter what size settings I give the individual table cells it always stretches when I open it in the browser.

This is what I want:

But when I resize the IE window it compresses down to this:

When I put IE to fullscreen it stretches out a bit too which throws off some text.

Anyone know a setting I can change? My lecturer is useless and just muttered something about style settings then wandered off.

 

[Philip]

Hey man, I don't suppose you can use css to design this site?
(Im not the best with tables since I skipped learning them )

Css is pretty easy and might save you a lot of bother.
(Im also guessing this is in IE6 since thats was most Colleges are stuck using)

 

[tsinc80697]

Im still in shock that you're at uni and being taught to use tables for layout !!

I could help in every way possible if it was DIVs/CSS but another table website is not what the world needs! If you were using CSS then it would be VERY easy to do

 

[Darg]

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Blame my lecturer. Most of his notes are from 1999. I even found that some of his "2004" notes are identical to old copies from 1999 that I found.

He never said we have to use tables so I guess I could use CSS. Any good links to tutorials for making a CSS layout like I have above?

 

[GravyMonster]

Here's a link to a site with a 3col layout - http://www.pixy.cz/blogg/clanky/css-3col-layout/

 

[unwashed potato!]

gosh this is worse then my college. can't believe they are teaching you how to build websites the extremely bad and dated way.

if i were you i'd give up using tables immediately and start learning css. that way atleast when you finish college you'll know something useful

 

[Philip]

They are still tables and iframes in my College

 

[Darg]

Okay thanks guys. I'll look into using CSS. This site:

http://www.pixy.cz/blogg/clanky/css-3col-layout/

still squeezes the middle column but I assume there's an easy way to stop that with CSS.

 

[suarve]

Have you tried giving the table tags (table, td, tr etc) an absolute width/height (although as said you should styles and I think giving a specific height will only work for td/tr tags, not the whole table iirc).

 

[Darg]

Yea all the sections have absolute widths and heights. I'll just have to deal with it for now unless I get it switched over to CSS.