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try to add !important at the end of your css attribute

Gregoire 2009-08-14 19:35:39

Answer 2

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min-height: 26px;

Will work for everything but IE. For IE, I typically use some jQuery:

if ($('stuff').height() < 26) { $('stuff').height(26); }

I think, I don't have my code in front of me.

mabwi 2009-08-14 19:41:36

Answer 3

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I realise that your experience is different to my own, but typically a table-cell (whether <th> or <td>) will adopt whatever height is required to display the content, regardless of the style-rules relating to height or overflow.

Are you using a doctype? I generally use <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> in my pages, and the demo page (over at this page) seems to back this up.

The page there uses the following the markup:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"&gt;

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

<head>
    <title></title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/stylesheet.css" />

    <style type="text/css" media="all">

table {width: 80%;
 margin: 1em auto;
 }

    tr,th,td
     {height: 40px;
     }

    th, td {border: 1px solid #f90;
     }

    </style>

</head>

<body>

<table>

<thead>
<tr><th>Names</th><th>Description</th><th>Actor</th></tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
<tr><td>Number One</td><td>The assumed leader of the Village</td><td>Perhaps Patrick McGoohan</td></tr>
<tr><td>Number Two</td><td>There are two Number Twos with repeat appearances: Leo McKern appeared in three episodes, and Colin Gordon in two. With the exception of "Fall Out", this was the result of the actors performing their roles in two consecutive episodes filmed back to back. Colin Gordon was filmed in "The General" followed immediately with "A. B. and C." McKern was featured in the series' second transmitted episode, "The Chimes of Big Ben," and then featured in the next production episode to be filmed "Once Upon a Time." Three actors who portray Number Twos also appear in other episodes, possibly as different characters — Georgina Cookson ("A. B. and C." as party guest and "Many Happy Returns" as Mrs Butterworth/No. 2), Kenneth Griffith ("The Girl Who Was Death" as Schnipps/No. 2 and "Fall Out" as The Judge) and Patrick Cargill ("Many Happy Returns" as Thorpe, and "Hammer Into Anvil" as No. 2) — although this is ambiguous, particularly in the case of Kenneth Griffith's character.</td><td>Patrick McGoohan</td></tr>
</tbody>

</table>

</body>

</html>

Conceivably, you could wrap the cell contents in a <span> and use that to enforce a particular height/width; but it does serve to complicate your markup somewhat.

David Thomas 2009-08-14 20:05:31

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