Layout problem

[jacy]

Hi All,
I'm using Layout 14 and under design/options/layouts I am using scrollbars down both sides for all pages except reciept pages.
I'm also using Normans excellent Nortree for my menus.
The problem I'm having is this;
on all pages except the brochure pages the "scrollbars down both sides cells "width is 120 -here is the cell HTML from a preview page:

<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" height="100%">
<tr>

<td background="palette3bg.gif" valign="top" width="120"> <br>
</td>
<td valign="top">
<TABLE BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" WIDTH="550" ALIGN="CENTER">
<TR>
<TD VALIGN="MIDDLE" ALIGN="LEFT" >

If the catalog pages are viewed at 1024x768 the cell width will stay at 120 and thats fine.
If the catalog pages are viewed at 800x600 the scrollbar on the left shrinks to around 110 and the scrollbar on the right expands to around 150. This is really annoying because the menu on the left of each page covers over the text/item description and makes it impossible to read.

On the home page, the width of the scroll bars if viewed at 1024x768 is around 105 and the menu almost starts to cover the text.
If the homepage is viewed at 800x600 the width of the scrollbar is around 50, the menu covers an awful lot of the text and puts a left and right scrollbar at the botom of the page.

Ideally I would like to have all scrollbars on the home and catalog
pages at 120 and not changing regardlss of the resolution the pages are being viewed at. All sections/products are left aligned and I'd like to keep it that way. It doesn't matter if the body part of the page (where the descriptions,price etc) needs to be made smaller. I just need customers to be able to read the text/descriptions. I'm pretty sure i'm going to need to change the 100% part of the code above and if that is the case which templates and where in those templates do i need to make the changes.

Cheers and thanks for reading my novel!!

Mitch

[NormanRouxel]

If you want to stop a table column from shrinking then put a graphic in it that's as wide as the cell. It need only be 1 pixel high and can be the same colour as the cell. Alternatively having a 1x1 pixel transparent graphic makes this even easier.

e.g.

<img src="1x1trans.gif" width=120 height=1>

Norman

p.s. Now that NorTree is working I'd consider shrinking its text size or reducing the length of those few descriptions that need 2 lines. You'll be able to use much shorter cells and get more of that menu on-screen at the same time. Remember all those 800x600 screens are still out there.

[jacy]

Hiya Norman,
Merry Christmas, Happy New year etc
and thank you yet again for your help. I have the menu so everything is visible now but i'm thinking it might look a bit silly with the purple underneith it. As i mentioned earlier I have scrollbars down both sides. Both are purple (Don't ask!!) is there a way to make the scrollbar on the left (the side the menu is on) white/transperant so all you should see on the left hand side is the menu?

Cheers,

Mitch

www.jacyscomputers.com.au

[jacy]

It's fixed now. And looks much better