Independent Expandable Content Boxes. help!

ViciOuS · 05-16-2005

First things first. Take a look at this template I made a few days ago. Read each content box and i'm sure you understand my problem.

http://www.riffriot.com/clanadvanced-com

If this link doesn't work. Please PM me.

I thought I was an xpert with html until I decided to start learning the process of making templates, lol. Also please note that I use Dreamweaver for all my template/HTML projects.

**Man1c M0g** · 05-16-2005

Aha, you've used Imageready haven't you? The simple explanation is that Imageready has generated you some very messy HTML in which all the cells across are part of the same table, so when you expand one box down, the others will follow. The solution is simple - manually re-create the centre bit so that you have three main columns, each with separate tables containing the side cells, main cells, etc. Its hard to explain... and I could undoubtedly do this FOR you in less than 20 mins... but you'd learn nothing, and that wouldn't help you too much in future projects.

ViciOuS · 05-16-2005

Yes, I used ImageReady for this, is this something that I shouldn't do in future projects?.. or is there a way around this in ImageReady.

It would pry take me the rest of the day (about 4 hours) to get this fixed if I did it manually, and thats with trial and error of course.

It would be a lot easier if I could just fix this crap with Dreamweaver, lol.

Order · 05-17-2005

create some more cells and read up on rowspan attribute for td tags.. it is start, not a clean start, but workable..

ViciOuS · 05-17-2005

bah, I need to get it done. I want to start workin on it with PHP. I asked Man1c if he would do it for me real quick.

**Man1c M0g** · 05-17-2005

I dont know any way around this in Imageready i'm afraid. Its a limitation of automatic programs I guess...

Order · 05-17-2005

it is a problem of most any program that generates html, dreamweaver does an ok job, but there are still limits..

HTML can be tricky when you tables, however once you have the basic principals they become really simple.

ViciOuS · 05-17-2005

hmm, I had a feeling that I would have to end up doing it manually in the future. All well, it couldn't be any harder then PHP lol. Thanks guys.

Order · 05-17-2005

It is not.. HTML is one language that should be learned manually... it will prove to be extremely useful.

ViciOuS · 05-18-2005

Definately, lol.