| Stephen Poley 2005-11-28, 7:05 pm |
| On Sun, 27 Nov 2005 20:25:48 GMT, James Frayne
<james_fraynedoesnotlikespam@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>I am fairly new to using CSS and have been asked to design a new site
>from scratch, I want to use a tableless layout with valid XHTML and CSS.
You might do better with HTML 4.01 and CSS, unless you have very
specific authoring needs for XHTML. See past discussions in c.i.w.a.html
for the reasons.
>The first problem is that I want the background colour of the menu on
>the left hand side to extend to the footer at the bottom of the page. I
>have searched a bit for this and realise that this is a limitation of
>CSS and that there are various workarounds, but I don't really
>understand how to make them work or which one to use, can anyone help
>explain fairly simply how to do it?
>
>The site is at: http://seis.bris.ac.uk/~jf3537/index.html
>and the CSS: http://seis.bris.ac.uk/~jf3537/style.css
Does this help?
http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/layout3.html
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Stephen Poley
http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/
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