I can never get my head around this. I use a table and in a cell of that table I put a bunch of text styled in some way but with, say, a leading of 140%.
Very nice, until we get to the bottom of the cell where there is acres of ‘spare’ cell space - presumably put there by FW because you don’t get something for nothing!
Very untidy and ugly. How do I get rid of it? I want the table to end (logically) at the end of the text!
Select the tablecell, and -in the Inspector palette- give it a height that’s to small for the text to fit (10px for instance). The cell automatically will grow to make the text fit anyway, but that’s fine. As soon as you -for instance- delete a bunch of text from within that cell, you’ll see the height shrink to fit … again.
My cell is actually 5249pt (it says pt in the inspector as the measurement unit) and full of text and photos. Are you saying set the cell height BEFORE putting any content in the cell? I’m sure I set off with a cell about 200pt high, and yes it’s automatically grown.
While the content fits neatly in the cell in Freeway, when published to a browser there is lots of spare cell at the bottom of the page. It’s as though leading which has been applied to text (say 120%) has actually been interpreted as a cell expansion. Do you get my meaning? (I wish you could post images here to show what one means!)
In fact, as I’ve just discovered round at a friend’s house, this behaviour is not evident when viewed on a PC browser - it only seems to happen when publishing/viewing in a Mac browser!
If you can do so, compare the bottom of the following page on both Mac and PC browsers…
“Try setting your text so that style > space after… is set to 0px.”
So David, what can I do if this doesn’t help the problem? Safari, Chrome seem to be OK, IE and Firefox are still adding this extra white space on the bottom of text.