make img height 100% of td
- by kristina childs
I'm creating an HTML email and since background images can't be used on anything but <body> thought I could get around this by making a border image 100% height within a cell. Perhaps it was wishful thinking? I've searched at the solutions that worked in the past no longer work in modern browsers. Is there any special trick to making this happen without setting a hard height for the cell?
Here are the things I've tried so far:
<td width="25" style="margin:0; padding:0;">
<img src="http://www.mysite.com/images/side-left.jpg" width="25" height="100%" alt="border" style="margin:0; padding:0; display: block;" />
</td>
stretches the image to 100% height of the entire table (even though the table is nested in a
<td width="25" height="100%" style="margin:0; padding:0;">
<div style="height:100%; diplay: block;">
<img src="http://www.mysite.com/images/side-left.jpg" width="25" height="100%" alt="border" style="margin:0; padding:0; display: block;" />
</div>
</td>
ditto
<td width="25" height="1" style="margin:0; padding:0;">
<div style="height:100%; diplay: block;">
<img src="http://www.mysite.com/images/side-left.jpg" width="25" height="100%" alt="border" style="margin:0; padding:0; display: block;" />
</div>
</td>
setting a smaller td size does not force it to strectch as expected. bummer.
