Expandable Table Problem

[legomaniac]

Hey, I am new here representing a company starting in a few weeks. Most of the people, including myself (the graphic designer) are keyed twords C and C++ programming or graphic design. I know basic HTML quite well and my friend who is starting the company knows a little bit of PHP and CSS.

Our problem is at the following site:
http://www.allwirehosting.net/newsit...tentpages.html

I am trying to find a way to make the main content area of the website extendable to any length, in the process of doing so I split it up into two different cells of the same table. It solved the problem, in a shoddy way. If someone wants to select the text in the main content area, they also end up selecting the cells adjacent to the first cell where the main content is located.

I know that there is a way to fix this problem, probably with a Dynamic HTML tag or some CSS or somthing. I tried splitting the site up into seperate frames, but that doesn't help me either since you can not select text between the two seperate HTML documents.

Any help is very much appreciated, and thank you very much in advance.

[Smokie]

thats just the nature of html tables im afraid, really all you need is 3 columns and a header, if you want you can put more tables within the left and right columns.

Also on your body tag you need a bgcolor and set it to the same as the gray that you have, so that your site doesnt float in a white page.

[Rob]

I really think you need to look at use div elements and CSS INSTEAD of the tables...

It will totally solve your problems.

[legomaniac]

Yeah, thnk you guys for your help. The person I am working with is learning some more advanced CSS as we speak to take care of the issue. I though about putting another table in those two side cells but that would get very complicated and the text within the two seperate tables would still be selectable with the rest of the main content.

As for the background of the page, it is in it's very preliminary design, no extra adjustments have been made, so right now it doesn't have a background, however, I have been messing around with the background enough to know the current hex of my bgcolor by heart.

Thank you guys very much for your time, from what it seems we are going to take a whack at making the page in CSS, especialy since Adobe ImageReady has the ability to output CSS for the site depending on the slices and we can edit it from there.