Ken,

Many thanks for the helpful reply and suggested solution.  I did actually
try a block container, but I couldn't get this to work (it may be because I
was trying to specify an absolute position).  I will try again.

As to the applicabilty of height to the table-rows, it does partially work.
It achieves an at least capability.  That is, if you set a row-height of 10
cms the row will be at least that height, but it will also grow if it feels
it needs to.

Regards,

Mark

----- Original Message -----
From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 9:35 PM
Subject: Re:  table-row height attribute


> At 2004-03-09 20:38 +0000, Mark Williams wrote:
> >As you probably know, if the text in a cell is too long it wraps to the
next
> >line and increases the row height.  The spec says that specifying a
height
> >fixes the height, by which I  assumed it meant that any wrapping text
would
> >be lost.  Either I've misread the spec
>
> I believe you have misread the spec, though I am having problems myself.
>
> I think the height= doesn't apply to table-row, even though it is in the
> spec, because the spec says table-row doesn't generate any areas, it only
> returns areas, and the height= property states that it applies to boxes
> generated by block-level elements.
>
> So, I think height= is listed with table-row because table-row is a
> block-level element, but since table-row doesn't generate any boxes, it
> ends up not applying in the long run.
>
> In my UBL stylesheets when I want to limit the height of a table-cell, I
> put the lines of text into a block-container that has a height= property
> and put that block-container into the table-cell.  The definition for
> block-container is that it does, indeed, generate boxes, so that is why
> height= works.
>
> But then, I'm not and wasn't on the committee itself, so this is
conjecture
> based on my read of the specification.  Can someone from the committee
> comment on this interpretation, please?  I hate to mislead anyone, but the
> explanation above fits the evidence.
>
> And your work-around is to do what I do with my UBL stylesheets: use
> block-containers with a fixed height and overflow="hidden".
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> ....................... Ken
>
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