Need some help with image height.

[flood6]

I usually find myself pissed at Microsoft, but today I curse Firebird.

The problem is on a demo site I started working on last night at www.static.divergentlines.com . The story behind this project is a long boring one, but eventually it is going to be used as a demo for tightwad clients who want to see what they can get in a couple of days for a couple hundred bucks. Kind of a "bargain basement" site.

I'm trying to make an image be just as tall as the browser window (I'm not messing with margins). So I give an image height="100%" so that it will work in diffrent resolutions. IE6 handles it great, Opera7 does great, Firebird0.7 (and therefore I assume NN) stuffs it up. In higher resolutions, they all do what I want, but lower resolutions like 800x600 in Firebird will not. (I'm talking about the pinup girl on the far right of the images below...mods, she's fully clothed, lol)

High Screen Resolution in Firebird:


Low Screen Resolution in Firebird:


Low Screen Resolution in Opera:


I've been searching for an elegant solution using HTML for a while but can't find one. I want to avoid any more javascript than I am already using to keep the load times managable and want to avoid PHP to keep with the "cheapy" theme of this site.

Is there some simple solution that I am just not seeing, like all of a sudden you can't seem to remember how to spell "house" (haus?...haose?...hause?)?

I've got pictures of cyanide in a leather thong which I'll share with anyone who helps.

[mikmik]

Didn't work in Firebird @ 1600x1200 for me either.

I looked around on the Mozilla site and couldn't find anything specific about any 'bugs' that would cause pinup to render only the the one static size.
Maybe you could try putting a width measurement in? That wouldn't size properly, even if it did work, though. Can't think of anything else.
I don't want to see cyanide like that. Please.lol

[flood6]

Thanks for digging around, mikmik. Like you said, it seems that Firebird won't respond if just the height is specified... I'm not enough of a programmer or html standards expert to label this a Firebird bug or simply poor html on my part. I guess it doesn't really matter too much.

I got tired of pulling my hair out and attacked it from a diffrent angle. You can see what direction I'm moving in now at www.static.divergentlines.com/about_us.html . Basically I'm using a simple table with the far right cell bgcolor to match the color I wanted on the right, then putting in the gif and nav menu in that cell.

Just in case anyone else ever runs into this issue, I tried doing some <div> stuff which got me in the right direction in some areas, but just caused more problems in others. You can see what I ended up with using this attack at www.static.divergentlines.com/contact.html, it will only use <div>'s for the next few minutes until I convert it to the table format I decided to go with.

I think css would be a good strategy here, but I am still not comfortable enough with the layout functions yet.

Perhaps I will get more assistance if I threaten to post the cyanide photo if someone does not resolve this issue for me, lol.

[ranjan]

Altough the article is for controlling div heights, the logic holds good for images too

http://www.total-impact.com/reviews....content&id=105

Try it out