How to have a layer panel sit inside a table?

Is there a way to have a layer panel inside a table? If there is, can anyone show me how? The reason I want the layer panel to be inside a table is because as the layer gets longer vertically, the body of the page don't increase vertically, or in my case, the layer panel verlaps the menu bar at the bottom of the page. So I thought if there is a way to stick the layer inside a table and have the table control the width and heighth of the layer panel. I want this to occure because this page loads its data from the database and the size of the layer increase dynamically.

ljCharlie

Erm... I'm not sure if I've understood you right, but can't you just do this? :

<table width="800" border="1" align="center" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="4">
<tr>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td><div>hello</div></td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
</table>

This is a 3x3 table with a div layer in the centre.

Maybe that's not what you're after, but...