[help] Orienting A Table To The Bottom Of A Page

Hey guys

I am the webmaster of the UCMB Website: http://www.ucmb.uconn.edu

What I would like to do is to orient the contact information table on the bottom of the home page to the absolute bottom of that table, regardless of how much space would be inbetween the bottom of the picture, and top of the table.

I'm not sure if this is possible but I've tried orienting it with CSS...so far no good. <_<

Anyone have any ideas?

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#142725

You could do it with frames, having the bottom frame being "fixed."

#142740

I'm basically completely unfamailliar with frames...I'm assuming if I used frames I'd have to change my doctype?

I guess I'm looking for a frame-less way of doing it...but I will look into that.

thanks for your help

#142742

How about a bottom-margin setting?

#142757

Eugh.

You're using tables in an XHTML 1.1 document?

Why don't you just go over to the W3C and widdle in Tim Berners-Lee's coffee, whilst you're there? >.<

Tables are not a layout tool.

You could make your page work if you rip out all the tables and re-did it with a pure XHTML/CSS2 solution, and it'd probably reduce page-load times too.

If you want more info, lemme know,

And frames are the work of the devil. Anyone who uses them needs their head looking at...

#142763

Pssh... Frames are great if they're used the way they are supposed to be.

#142773

Originally posted by johnny5w@Apr 11 2004, 11:36 AM
Pssh... Frames are great if they're used the way they are supposed to be.

And therein lies the problem.

I think I've seen about one place where frames were put to good use, and that was just as a proof of concept.

The general concensus is that frames suck, and I would tend to agree.

I agree that they can be good, if they're used well, but like I say, that occurs about once in a blue moon, and you can almost always acheive the same effect in CSS2, with much less overhead, and with more manageability.

#142774

Originally posted by Stevie BM@Apr 11 2004, 05:36 AM
Eugh.

You're using tables in an XHTML 1.1 document?

Tables are not a layout tool.

It's still a work in progress. My ultimate goal will be to use php/asp or some other language with the site...but until then...

That sites undergone many renovations...and will need another one as (and correctly stated) the tables need to be cut in favor of css. I'm still learning css, so for a first semi-professional website, I didn't want to risk the site being un-viewable on mulitple web browsers. The css table recoding of the site will take awhile...and even though I'm still learning a fair amount about css, I still don't know enough to make it completely css and table-less, much less have that work in all 4 major web browsers >.

#142816

hate to bump this...but anyone have any more ideas/suggestions?

#149867

No, but I think that putting the valid XHTML and CSS pictures/links under "site awards" is pushing it a bit.

#149977

thanks for the criticism

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