[thelist] HTML help

rudy r937 at interlog.com
Wed Aug 15 21:41:04 CDT 2001


> Can someone help me get the look that I want for this page?
> In IE it looks fine.  Just like I want it.  But in Netscape 4.7,
> some of the borders aren't showing up and the spacing is wrong.
>
> The url is http://www.games4yoursite.com/html/

hi chris

i might not be able to fix your problem, but that page sure looks nice

and i swear there's a noticeable difference in the colour of the buttons
between ie5 and ns4.7

but anyhow, about your problems...

the difference in spacing in netscape will be due to things like

    <td width="25"></td>

if it must be that wide, stick your 1x1 gif in there with width=25

the other column, width=500, will presumably have content so you won't need
to jam it open

as for the vertical borders not showing up, i'm not sure

the table with the problem is

     <table width="125"
          <tr>
              <td width="1" bgcolor="#000000"
              <td align="center"
                     [ buttons ]
              </td>
              <td width="1" bgcolor="#000000"
          </tr>
     </table>

i.e. since it's supposed to be 125, maybe give width=123 to the inner cell

i noticed that it *almost* works in the standalone version at the bottom

so maybe netscape is doing some fast and loose rounding as it tries to
calculate a column width


i've also heard that netscape can get confused if the first thing is sees
is a row with colspans and rowspans in it

maybe have an invisible 1-pixel high row at the top of the (outer) table so
that it has something to go on when you start the "real" rows

rudy







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