10g TableLayout no height?

Question

If, as the documentation says, <tableLayout> "is a thin wrapper around the HTML<table> element", why doesn't it have a 'height' attribute? I gave up on getting it to work how I wanted using <spacer> as I saw in the examples, and just replaced my attempts to use <tableLayout> and <rowLayout> with <html:table>, <html:tr>, and <html:td>. What could I do with <tableLayout> that I can't do with <html:table>? That is, what would make it worth trying to figure out how to get along without a 'height' attribute?

Answer 1

I generally use HomeSite, which does have the height attribute in the properties sheet for table. But, let's go with the standards thing and see how we can do this with the tableLayout tags. If I try the following, neither renders to the full height of the browser window:
<table width="100%" border=1 >
     <tr>
          <td width="100%" height="100%">
          </td>
     </tr>
</table>
<tableLayout borderWidth="1" width="100%" >
    <contents>
        <rowLayout>
            <contents>
                <cellFormat width="100%" height="100%">
                    <contents>
                    </contents>
                </cellFormat>
            </contents>
        </rowLayout>
    </contents>
</tableLayout>In the HTML sample, I can use the non-standard height attribute on the table tag to make this fill the browser both horizontally and vertically. How do I do this with tableLayout -- or, for that matter, in HTML without using the table height attribute?