[thelist] table cell troubles in Netscape

JTocher janice at discoverysystems.com
Wed Nov 22 08:38:41 CST 2000


Amazing Matthew! that works better than my spacer suggestion... the ever
on-going question is why would the 'nowrap' affect how the cell is
centered??? ah, but is there ever an explanation to fickle browsers?
Janice

on 11/22/00 9:28 AM, you wrote:

> I added the NOWRAP attribute to the cell with your quote in it and that
> displays the same for me in NN 4.7 and IE 5.5 on a Mac...
> 
> On 11/22/00 at 9:05 PM, lisa at koolfish.com (Lisa Bartholomew) wrote:
> 
>> Hi all, hope you are all faring better on the sleep front than I am lately.
>> Yet another niggly problem I can't get my head round.
>> 
>> I have a table that is split so that the outsides of the table form a
>> rectangle with a drop shadow and in the middle is live text with a bg
>> colour. When I view it in Netscape, for some reason I can't fathom out the
>> right hand column is adding more space so that there is a gap and the text
>> is not centred. I don't really want to make it a graphic as the first page
>> is rather graphic intensive and I have 2 more of these quotes to add.
>> 
>> Hard to explain so the page is here:
>> 
>> http://www.koolfish.com/jake/index.html
>> 
>> If you want to see what it should look like view in Explorer. I have the
>> table cells set to the correct width so why is Netscape creating the cell
>> larger than it should be?
>> 
>> The rest of the site is all over the place so please ignore :)
>> Thanks
>> Lisa.
>> 
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