How do I setup scrolling text between a banner and a footer in HTML 4.01?

"Vince C." <none@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I used to do this with a TABLE both height and width set to 100% and the
central
> cell height to 100%. But if I include the DOCTYPE for HTML 4.01 a 100%
high cell
> covers the entire window height. It also results in always having a
vertical
> scrollbar; header and footer always overflow whatever their size.

You mean something like this?

http://aspyre.net/temp/alt.html/for-vince.html

The above doesn't work in Internet Explorer, but it's the proper way and it
works fine in Opera and Mozilla. It degrades rather well for IE.

Or do you mean something like this?

http://aspyre.net/temp/alt.html/for-vince-2.html

Thanks a lot, spaghetti (you make me hungry, now ;-) I owe you a beer.

See below.

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> "Vince C." <none@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:3ef76123$0$13246$4d4efb8e@read.news.be.uu.net ...
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> You mean something like this?
>
> http://aspyre.net/temp/alt.html/for-vince.html

In MSIE6 I see a header and a footer that both are scrolled. In fact
everything lies in a single page that is scrolled, header and footer
included. I'd like header and footer to remain at their respective position
but the footer to follow the bottom border of the canvas.


> The above doesn't work in Internet Explorer, but it's the proper way and
it
> works fine in Opera and Mozilla. It degrades rather well for IE.
>
> Or do you mean something like this?
>
> http://aspyre.net/temp/alt.html/for-vince-2.html

In MSIE, this is closer to what I'd like to achieve. Header and footer
remain at their initial position and footer follows the bottom border of the
canvas. Besides I'd like the content to be scrollable instead of the body.
But I suppose I can then combine "overflow" style in both the body and
#content, am I right?

BTW does the latter give the same results in most browsers? Or is this
(behaviour) MSIE-specific?

Thanks again,
Vince C.