[thelist] Netscape 6 Liquid Table Bug

Elly elly at mac.com
Fri Feb 23 06:52:45 CST 2001


Netscape 6 Liquid Table update -

>The technique of making liquid tables work for NN4 shows a problem 
>in NN6 in certain conditions.

>* a cell width of 100%
>* table tag has percentage width attribute set at less than 100%


It seems that at these certain browser widths, NN6 does some rounding 
off to make sense of the conflicting percentages, and results in the 
dropped pixel from the 100% width cell (thanks, James). This led me 
to a solution.

The workaround is to remove the table tag width attribute (the less 
than 100% width) and nest it in another table with the desired table 
tag percentage width attribute.

I'm not thrilled about nesting the tables I have at my site, just for 
this rare NN6 quirk! Do weird stuff just for NN4...now do different 
weird stuff for NN6, to make up for the weird stuff you did for NN4!

You can see the revised demo, explaination and code at:

http://www.echozone.com/nn6.html
-- 
Elly

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