Locking specific cells

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Hyperion_dani

Sorry for posting this message. I used search and I saw about 100
discussions about this topic but no one true solution. I go crazy with
this.
I use FrontPage 2003 and my site is this http://daneu.100webspace.net
How you can see on the left side I have a column with 2 cells. The top
one is with the name of the site, the second one has the navigation
bar. The problem is auto-resize of the cells. In Opera browser it
display very well, just like I wanted. In others browsers no.
It doesn't matter the text I put in them. I understand that is no
possible to lock a cell. I thought to make a third cell at the bottom
and that cell to auto-resize(the height). But I never succeded. Can you
help me? I don't know HTML.
I tried to input speific values for the desired "fixed" cells
specifying the height and the bottom cell I even made it autostrecth
row. It doesn't work. And the values for cells height clears
automatically.
Thanks in advance!
 
What I do to lock cells is to create a 1x1 transparent GIF (or a GIF the
same color as your background) and insert it into the cell and set the
height (or width) to the number of pixels that I want the cell to stay at.
 
Insert it as a backround? Because if not, how do I insert the content I
want?
And I understood that you can make a GIF with the same color as your
general backround but it is really possible to make a transparent GIF?
Thanks for the reply.
 
You can find a transparent .gif at
http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/images/tp.zip
This is zipped to make it downloadable.
Most, if not all, graphics editors can produce transparent .gifs.

You insert the gif into the cell, setting alignment to left or right,
and change the dimensions to 1px wide x whatever height required (to set
minimum height), or 1px high by whatever pixels wide to set width.
These dimensions are minimums - the cell may still stretch with content.
The content of the cell will line up alongside or below the .gif.

An alternative is to nest a table into cell, and set the cell properties
to align to the top.
The inserted table then contains all the content for that column.
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