How do I set a maximum table height? I tried height and max-height but neither worked. I need to have it a certain height because more than that height it adds a vertical scrollbar, which adds a horizontal scrollbar because I have an image that's pushing it. beeseven.trap17.com I want the table that the updates are in to be a certain height with a scrollbar there instead of making it above the page length and adding a main scrollbar.

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In all of the browsers I'm familiar with, you don't have control over any maximum parameters in a table. If the image or text you inserted in a table is larger than a cell or table height/width, the table will stretch to accommodate it.

The HTML code you are looking for is not a table. The only way to add scroll bars is with a frame.

One possible option would be making your home page a frameset & putting the navigation buttons in the top frame & the updates in the bottom frame.
http://www.htmlhelp.com/design/frames/usage/


The solution I think you are really looking for is called an inline frame.
http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/special/iframe.html

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max-height or max-width exist but are not supported by many browsers. I think only opera supports those (don't quote me on that though).

anyway, the way I see your post is this... You are asking 2 things.
1. you have an image that you dont want to scroll (image is in a table cell).
2. You want your text in your news section to scroll but not the page.

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1. if you have an image inside a table and you don't want scrollbars, put everything in the table cell inside a div.
Example:
<table><tr><td>
<div style="overflow:hidden;width:10px;height:10px">
<img src="yourpic.jpg"></div></td></tr></table>

Change the width and height to the size of the picture. The overflow:hidden removes scroll bars (just in that area and not the whole page).

2. To get a scroll bar just for your news section, you use DIV's again.
Example:
<div style="overflow:auto;height:400px;width:400px">
Your news and junk
</div>

This will make a box with width 400 and height 400 pixels. The scroll bar shows up only if the text is longer than 400 pixels.

 

 

 

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Overflow:auto + width and height worked, but I had to make the height absolute. Is it possible to use a percentage with height?

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