Page layout Frames vs Tables??

mfleming · Dec 9, 2005

Hello.

I Have a major problem. I want to have a menu that fixed along the top of the page and be able to scroll thru the rest of the page. I have been told that you shouldn't use frames but I can't do it with out it.

I tried using tables but I can't get it to work properly.
My audience is IE 6.0 browsers only.

Check out the page.

http://www3.mb.sympatico.ca/~kdevlin/index-IE.htm

All the tables got messed up and it doesn't look proper.

Should I just use frames and be done with it or does someone have a really good site/info on how to create one without it and still conform to.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">

This is what I want it to look like:

http://www3.mb.sympatico.ca/~kdevlin/temp.htm

(removed DOCTYPE)

thanks

Matt

vacunita · Dec 9, 2005

Theres something called Div's that can be used to achieve that effect. Realy easily, and still conform to the Doctype.

Try placing 2 DIvs like so:

Code:

<div id="top" class="top">
---Fixed top bar content---
</div>

<div id="restofpage" class="content">
---page content---
<div>

Using a little CSS you can specify the height of the top bar say 15% of the page, and the bottom div's width 85% and make it scrollable.

Very simple to do and it adheres to standards by usaing CSS.

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Page layout Frames vs Tables??

mfleming

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