Re: Table problems with netscape....

Ed:

Please do not misunderstand. I do NOT mean to sound as though this is a put
down. It is very hard to kid someone with plain text ...

But as has been pointed out over and over to the point of nausea--Netscape
does NOT do CSS, (styles) well at all--no how--no way!!

And Bart has a very good point. Often Netscape MUST have "something" in a
cell for it to display properly.

Still--I am tempted to suggest you form your table with straight HTML and
you will have no problem.

Something like this:

<div align="center">
      <center>
      <table border="5" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="1" width="95%">
        <tr>
          <td width="8%" bgcolor="#FF0000">&nbsp;</td>
          <td width="15%" bgcolor="#008000">&nbsp;</td>
          <td width="72%" bgcolor="#0000FF">&nbsp;</td>
        </tr>
      </table>

Of course, you can change the spacing, percentages and border to whatever
you like. Also, Netscape may--or may not--like the &nbsp's (non-breaking
spaces). They are optional.

I too am intrigued with XHTML and I do use styles in a very limited way. But
if one gets even a little fancy with CSS, Netscape runs away faster than a
baseball player on a rainy day.

Best wishes
Ted Temer
Temercraft Designs Redding, CA
temer(at)c-zone.net
www.temercraft.com/novels/
www.newsredding.com/
www.ramac-rc.org/


> I have searched the archives, but haven't found the information I am
looking
> for so please be patient as I ask yet another question about tables in
> netscape....
>
> 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.?
>
> Ed
>
>

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