[IUG] pverify4_web

[kathy dot koch at gm dot com]

Anyone dealt with multiple saved requests (e.g. "book cart") -- 
pverify4_web.html (Release 2006) and IE7 putting in  a ton  of white space 
before you get to the table (I'm estimating about the 1/2 the size of the 
table or more).  Thus ugly and no one is going to scroll down.  With small 
lists (oh say 10 items or less), it seems to play nice, but get some of 
the larger ones (like patrons will of course) and it behaves very badly. 

The table is a generated one from the {listtable} token, so I have no real 
control over the table itself. I've tried nesting it within another table 
and trying some valign=top type of things, including putting it in a <div> 
with some css (vertical-align: top).  But apparently IE7 just ignores that 
(a known issue from what I'm reading).  I've also tried some suggestions 
on the internet like making sure all my <tr><td>'s don't have spacing or 
returns after them.  Didn't make any diff.

I found the following "hack" on the 'net that kinda sorta works by putting 
in 3 <div>s and some mess of absolute and relative positioning (and 
playing with the + and - position percentages).  Which actually works if I 
scroll the table (with the overflow: auto) but again, not too pretty (I 
don't like the scrolling), plus then small tables get positioned oddly.

 <div class="listtable" style="display: table; height: 300px; #position: 
relative; overflow: auto;">
 <div style=" #position: absolute; #top: 55%;display: table-cell; 
vertical-align: top;">
 <div class="listtable" style=" #position: relative; #top: -45%">
<!--{listtable}-->
</div></div></div>

So... I don't like it and am hoping that someone has something 
better/different???? Maybe I'm overlooking something obvious?
 
Kathy Koch
Systems Librarian
GM Information Research
email: kathy dot koch at gm dot com

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