====== MS IE Oddities ======
===== Internet Explorer 7 =====


==== Tables ====

=== height:100% ===
Sometimes, you need a table to spread out over the full page. You may have, for instance, a menu bar with a fixed height in the top row, a content row and a bottom row containing perhaps copyright notices.

For starters, set ''**html**'' and ''**body**'' to ''**height:100%**''. This ensures that your table will assume maximum height.

For IE7, this does not seem to be enough, however. I have found that IE7 stretches the top and bottom row, ignoring their fixed height. Deleting the DOCTYPE declaration fixes this. See  [[http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnie60/html/cssenhancements.asp|this MS page]] for more details on the "DOCTYPE switch".

Adding a DOCTYPE declaration, any DTD, seems to mess up IE7's ability to properly display tables with ''**height:100%**''.