Fixed row heights

[Charley Kyd]

I have a simple two-by-two table, with the right column merged. It therefore
has three cells that are arranged somewhat like this:

1 2
3 2

I want cell number 1 to **always** have a height of 1 pixel. I want cells 2
and 3 to expand as data is added.

To test my settings, I inserted an image in cell 2. and then I change its
height to simulate the addition of real content. As the image's height
increases to several thousand pixels, the height of cell 1 increases no
matter what I do.

The only way I've found to get around this problem is to manually set the
heights of cells 2 and 3. Not only does this take a lot of effort, it fails
when users change their text size in their browser.

Can anyone suggest a way to freeze cell 1 so that it's **always** one pixel
high?

Thanks.

Charley

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

You will need to create a 2 column table, then in the first column insert a nested table with 2 rows
for your 1 & 3 cells. In the base table, set both columns to be top left aligned.

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[Charley Kyd]

Thomas,

The reason for my original design is that I want my menu structure in the
left pane; but in the HTML I want it be *below* my page content in the right
pane. That way, the search engines fird page content rather than menu
content.

Your suggestion puts the menu structure above the page content.

Any other suggestions?

Charley

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

My suggestion is exactly what you were asking, you can not change the HTML to appear different from
how the page will be rendered in the browser.

The search engines will find all content that is only your page that is viewable by site visitors.
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[Charley Kyd]

Suppose I have a page that talks about OLAP and Excel, and that people get
to that section with a menu option. When people search for those two terms I
want the search engines to return a summary of my first paragraph of actual
content. I *don't* want the search engines merely to return text from my
menu.

Other than stuffing the menu text below the page contents, is there some
other way to tell the search engines to ignore the menu text when they
summarize a page?

Charley

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Search engines in generally use your title and description meta tags for display in their indexes.
Short of place the content on your page in the order you want it read, you have no control over how
a search engine will read your page.

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