How can I reduce the height of my cells? (FP03)

[Guest]

The minumum size of my cells are 19. I change the numeric amount, but they
seem to default back to 19. There are no other cells in the row. How can I
remedy this? Also, as you might expect my Cell Footers/Headers won't reduce
any smaller than 19 also. Any suggestions? thanks.

 

[Mark Fitzpatrick]

Browsers render cells as they see fit. Often, the height is completely
ignored. If there is text in them then you have to suffer a bit larger size
usually because the fonts actually require a bit more space than they
appear. You can also try to force a particular size with a transparent gif
image that is, in this case, 1 pixel wide but X pixels high. You might have
to dig through the code as there could be something else there that is
causing the specified height. Posting a sample URL can help us look at the
page and maybe finding something there that's causing it.

Hope this helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage

 

[Murray]

If you want a cell to be 4px high, for example, then just insert a 4px high
transparent GIF image (often called a shim) which will replace the  
that FP puts in that cell (which character just happes to be 19px tall),
thereby allowing your cell to *be* 4px tall instead of the   19px tall.
Be aware that if there are other cells in the same row containing  
characters, then you must do this same thing to all cells in the row to
allow that row to finally become 4px tall.