How to set fancybox height and width identical?

In Dreamweaver, why does my Table height get too long?

• Why can't I reduce the height of my table? There's an example at http://www.inst.org/copy/member.htm On that page, there is a long blue column containing no data. When I select the Table in Dreamweaver, I can set the table height to 100%. But the table height stays too long. Even when I drag the re-size handles up, nothng changes. For the second column (?), Dreamweaver has set the height as follows: <td width="21%" height="1878" valign=TOP bgcolor="#00007F"> But I don't want to go into Code View to manually alter the table height every time I change data in the table.

• Answer:

  Hi, Sadgrove ... At times it can be hard to troubleshoot HTML problems, and the harder we look, the less we can see what the problem is. Actually, your blue table on the left is doing exactly what the coding tells it to do, that is, make itself as long as the entire table in which it is embedded. Tisme is right, the coding is for that column to be as long as the page, which you have done. If you want that blue column on the left to be no longer than the content on the right ... all you need to do is get rid of all the <p>&nbsp;</p> below your close table tag - </table> and the closing body tag </body>. Each of those adds another two lines to your page, and the blue column therefore gets another two lines longer, too. Your right column (the white side) has a height listed within the cell's tag as shown below: <td width="21%" height="1878" valign=TOP bgcolor="#00007F"> You can remove the height value completely within that tag, and the table will expand in height to adjust to accommodate the contents within that table cell. On another (and somewhat related) issue, when looking at your coding (HTML) on the page, I also noticed that there is no doc type declaration. According to HTML standards each HTML document requires a document type declaration. The "DOCTYPE" begins the HTML document and tells a validator which version of HTML to use in checking the document's syntax. The reason this is important is you don't want your visitors to enounter your web page and not be able see it as you intended. Without such a doctype on your html pages, most browsers will render the page according to whatever doctype statement it picked up from the previous page visited. The results are often disastrous. When using proprietary software such as you are using to build the page, a doctype declaration is even more important, in effect, it tells browsers that can't interpret any proprietary coding how to render it instead. As a rule, adding a doctype declaration also takes care of some of the little bugs you may encounter such as the one above. Information on both doctype and its importance to your document can be found at http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/doctype.html Hope this helps, Serenata