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Asked: 2026-05-11T07:57:33+00:00

Kindly look at the following code: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd>

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Kindly look at the following code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN' 'http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd'> <html xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>  <head> </head> <body> <table id='content' height='525' border='0' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0'> <tr style='height:9px'><td height='9' bgcolor='#990000'>Upper</td></tr> <tr><td  bgcolor='#990099'>Lower</td></tr> </table> </body> </html>

IE ignores the ‘height:9px’ and I can’t get what I want. Also, without the DOCTYPE, it works. But I have to follow the standard so that DOCTYPE cannot be removed. Does anyone how to fix the height of the upper row?

Some clarifications: 1. The height of second row may vary according to users’ action and cannot be fixed. 2. The height of the table is set to 525px so the table has a minimum height of 525px

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  1. the bottom cell will grow as you enter more text … setting the table width will help too

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN' 'http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd'> <html xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>  <head> </head> <body> <table id='content' style='min-height:525px; height:525px; width:100%; border:0px; margin:0; padding:0; border-collapse:collapse;'> <tr><td style='height:10px; background-color:#900;'>Upper</td></tr> <tr><td style='min-height:515px; height:515px; background-color:#909;'>lower<br/> </td></tr> </table> </body> </html>
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