[thelist] Table weirdness, unwanted spaces in cells

Elfur Logadóttir elfur at elfur.is
Tue Jul 31 13:21:55 CDT 2001


Hi gang,

i'm having a table - cell width - problem.

the page in question: http://www.el.is/temp/template.asp
tried on w2k in iis6b2 and nn4.7


the error: cells are displayed wider than defined.

I have a table where i have defined width and height for every cell and have
temporarily inserted an image with the correct size of each cell in each cell.

i'm using colspan and rowspan in few places - but that's nothing i haven't done
thousand times before.

the problem lies in the top row - cells 3+4 and 5+6 are wider than they are
supposed to.
in cell3+4 - a cell with colspan="2" (navigation) i have a list of dummy
navigation items, one of them is a longass word. this longass word is however
affecting the width of only cell 3 (which shouldn't be possible, because cell 3
has a colspan of 2 and takes the width of cells 3 and 4.

to make things even weirder, higher in the list there is another long ass
navigation item, but this time it is divided into two words - and then there are
no problems.

similar problem is in cell 5+6 (large img) the cell is supposed to be width 191
and an img is supposed to fill the cell, but this time the img is affecting the
width of cell 6.

I'm not sure anyone understands this ramble, but take a look at the page and
then you'll see my problem.

thanks
*the puzzled one*










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