RE: Table problems with netscape....

why use 3 separate tables? Just nest the two into the bigger one.
Kate Pollara

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hwg-basics(at)hwg.org [mailto:owner-hwg-basics(at)hwg.org]On
Behalf Of Lady Wight
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 6:58 AM
To: Ed Peddycoart; hwg-basics(at)hwg.org
Subject: Re: Table problems with netscape....



I am watching this thread with interest because I have
a ongoing issue that is very similar to this issue.  

I have three tables on my index page.  One is 100% and
goes across the top and the remaining are both left
aligned, one at 20% and one at 80% - done in HTML, not
CSS.  In MSIE, the two fill up the page.  In Netscape
4.7, the 80% table looks like 60% and doesn't stretch
to the width of the top 100% table.  btw, if I use
100% for the second table , it fills the page nicely
in Netscape, but forces horizontal scrolling in MSIE. 

http://www.wicks.ca/index.html

Is there any solution?  I've exhausted all I can think
of.

tia, Fran



--- Pamela Shorey <palema(at)galaxyinternet.net> wrote:
> > Here is my problem.  I can't seem to control the
> width of columns in a
> table
> > in netscape, although my code works like
> gangbusters in IE.
> >
> > Here is a simple example of what I am talking
> about:
> > http://www.celticblues.com/nntable.shtml
> >
> > View in IE it looks like I want it to...a narrow
> column, a wider column
> and
> > a final column taking up the remaining widht of
> the browser window....but
> in
> > NN 4.77, it appears as three nearly equal width
> columns.
> >
> > What am I doing wrong?  Also, is there a web site
> that lists/discusses the
> > various peculiarities of the various browsers
> etc.?
> 
> I used the validators at http://www.w3.org/ and
> neither the html nor the
> style designation in your document head validated.
> Also, you specify 10 px
> and 125 px for the first and second columns
> respectively. As I view it in
> MSIE, they seem closer to a 1:2 ration than 1:12. So
> MSIE isnt reading your
> style sheet "correctly" either.
> 
> There's a lot I dont know about this stuff, but
> shouldnt you make it
> validate first and then worry about how browsers see
> it?
> 
> Regards,
> Pam SHorey
> 


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