[thelist] Firebird not liking table in xhtml
Simon Willison
cs1spw at bath.ac.uk
Fri Oct 24 12:48:13 CDT 2003
Andrew Martin wrote:
> I have a table that Imageready made; I took an image, made slices, exported
> it, made it validate in XHTML but now Firebird is showing big gaps between
> the <tr> tags and it's bleeding into non-tabled content at times.
>
> When I remove the XHTML Strict declaration, the table renders properly. Why
> does this occur? Any way around it without removing the declaration?
This could be due to the well-documented image in table cell issue. The
short answer is to add this rule to your CSS:
td img { display: block; }
For the longer answer, see Eric Meyer's essay on the subject:
http://devedge.netscape.com/viewsource/2002/img-table/
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Simon Willison
Web development weblog: http://simon.incutio.com/
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