I'm building a pretty simple site that is just a 1 row x 1 col table called 'mainTable' with a tiling background image applied to it. Also, centered vertically in the table is a flash movie. I need mainTable to stretch to 100% of the available height of the browser window so that its background tile separates the window into 3 columns. I also need the flash movie to be centered from top to bottom. I can force this look with spacer.gif's but it doesnt allow for dynamic placement.

How do I do this?

Even if I was confusing, please respond so that I may attempt to clarify.

ok I sorta got this working using javascript. I just called a funciton onLoad that set mainTables height to screen.availHeight. This isn't that pretty because I actually want to set it to window.innerHeight but I don't think you can get that property, only set it. It doesnt work in firefox at all so I'd perfer a less technical approach. If somehow I could set the height of a couple spacer.gif's onResize based on window.innerHeight that would do the trick. Any ideas?

You could just set your table height to 100% in the properties, and then center the table cell both vertically and horizontally. BUT, the trick to having the table actually display as 100% height is to remove the line of code (ussually line 1 or 2) that says:
<pre id=code><font face=courier size=2 id=code>&lt;!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"&gt; </font id=code></pre id=code>
(there is a small possibility that this may cause some problems depending on what you have on your page - it isn't a problem 99% of the time)

This would be much simpler that using the javascript.

Hope that is what you were looking for.

oh man thanks so much. Havnt tried it yet but that sounds like it will work. I always wondered about that line, I'm semi-new to html so I just let DW write that line for me. If you would be so kind as to elaborate. What is it exactly and how is is safe to exclude it?

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booya! that did it.

To tell you the truth, I am not even really sure what purpose it has. I think it might have something to do with making sure the page is compiant with the majority of browsers????????????

Anyone know what it is for?

removing the doctype will throw IE into whats called "quirks mode" and it will not follow standards.
they are needed if you want to validate your page code.

good little discussion about it here.
www.alistapart.com/discuss/doctype/6/


regards

Dave Thomas
<b>DMX Zone Manager</b>