Vertical alignment in table cells

[UsuallyConfused]

If I create a table and then merge several cells vertically, I can enter some
text and can set the vertical alignment of the new 'spanned' cell to top,
middle or bottom and regardless of the vertical span, the text is aligned
correctly.

However, if instead of text I insert another table into the 'spanned' cell,
the vertical alignment is ignored and it always appears at the top of the cell.

I assume I am missing something. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thank you.

[Murray *ACE*]

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However, I'm not able to reproduce your results. The default alignment in a
cell is middle. That will affect nested tables the same way it affects
other content.

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"UsuallyConfused" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> If I create a table and then merge several cells vertically, I can enter
> some
> text and can set the vertical alignment of the new 'spanned' cell to top,
> middle or bottom and regardless of the vertical span, the text is aligned
> correctly.
>
> However, if instead of text I insert another table into the 'spanned'
> cell,
> the vertical alignment is ignored and it always appears at the top of the
> cell.
>
> I assume I am missing something. Can anyone point me in the right
> direction?
>
> Thank you.
>

[UsuallyConfused]

I realise what the problem is now. If I put a table within a cell which spans a
number of rows, setting the width of the table to 100% works and the table
fills the width of the cell regardless of how the cell expands.

However, setting the height to 100% does not fill the cell and even if I set
the vertical alignment of the cell to middle, it still aligns to the top. The
only way round this appears to be to set the table height to a pixel value
which just makes it fit inside the cell without too much 'push' and then it
works fine and I can do what I like inside the table and it will be aligned as
I want, relative to the cell it is in.

Assuming I am making sense, can this be reproduced and hopefully sorted?

Thanks.

[Murray *ACE*]

> However, setting the height to 100% does not fill the cell

If your page has a valid doctype, invalid HTML (such as table heights) will
be ignored.

> Assuming I am making sense, can this be reproduced and hopefully sorted?

It's still a bit vague because I don't know why you are wanting to do this.

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"UsuallyConfused" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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>I realise what the problem is now. If I put a table within a cell which
>spans a
> number of rows, setting the width of the table to 100% works and the table
> fills the width of the cell regardless of how the cell expands.
>
> However, setting the height to 100% does not fill the cell and even if I
> set
> the vertical alignment of the cell to middle, it still aligns to the top.
> The
> only way round this appears to be to set the table height to a pixel value
> which just makes it fit inside the cell without too much 'push' and then
> it
> works fine and I can do what I like inside the table and it will be
> aligned as
> I want, relative to the cell it is in.
>
> Assuming I am making sense, can this be reproduced and hopefully sorted?
>
> Thanks.
>

[UsuallyConfused]

Originally posted by: Newsgroup User
It's still a bit vague because I don't know why you are wanting to do this.


Imagine a knockout competition, where you have, say, 8 teams in the first
round, which leads to 4 teams in the semi finals, then 2 teams in the final.
Create a bordered table which is 8 rows x 4 columns, leave the first column as
it is, then in the second column, merge rows 1 and 2, 3 and 4, 5 and 6 and 7
and 8. Now in the third column, merge rows 1, 2, 3 and 4 and 5, 6, 7 and 8, and
in the last column merge all the rows. This could then be the template for a
competition and into each cell could be placed the teams, displayed on a web
site and updated as required. No problem so far.

However, if the data you wish to display in each cell might vary in format, or
require a tabular grid to show correctly, trying to add extra rows or columns
to the table would be madness, especially if it you started with 64 teams, or
did not want the formatting grid to show a border. The obvious thing to do is
put another borderless table in each cell which could contain as many rows or
columns as you wished and changed quite easily without effecting any other cell.

It may be that within a cell of the main table, I want to have some text at
the very top and some at the very bottom. If I created a small table with 2
rows and 1 column, then I could have the top cell aligned to top and the bottom
cell aligned to bottom and the job would be done. The only thing left would be
to set the small table to fill the parent cell, so that the text stayed at the
top or bottom of the cell as required.

And thus we arrive at my problem. Setting the inserted table width to 100%,
certainly fills the cell horizontally, but I cannot make it fill the cell
vertically.

I appreciate your help so far. Thanks.

Tim