[thelist] Inserting a non breaking space in an empty cell?

aardvark roselli at earthlink.net
Wed Mar 27 11:14:01 CST 2002


> From: Michael Galvin <mgalvin at sourcevisualthinking.ie>
> --
> Does anybody know if <td...></td> is 'invalid' code or not?  Does it

it's valid, but NN and IE sometimes don't render it with all the
properties you want...

> break down in certain browsers?  In most cases, I don't know how wide
> the cell is going to be, so I can't use a specific-width spacer image.

so just use a 1x1 to hold it open...?

>  I'd like to just set it so that the cell 'grabs' whatever is left of
> a 100% wide table, be it 3px or 300px.  If I put a &nbsp; in the
> middle of the <td></td>, and it turns out to be 3px wide, my table
> gets messed up.

well, the % is another thing... you could set the cell to 100% if the
other cells are going to retain their size thanks to images or the
like... either way, try the 1x1...




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