Re: Table problems with netscape....

From: "Lady Wight" <ladywight(at)yahoo.com>
> 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.

A couple things you may want to try:

1. Switch to CSS (even Netscrape 4.x supports basic, relative, positioning).

<div style="width:100%;">Top Menu</div>
<div style="width:20%;float:left">Left Menu</div>
<div style="width:80%">Main Content</div>

You may need to play with percentages a bit as each browser interprets the
box model differently (adding or not adding padding, margins, etc.)

2. Use two tables and flow the TD tags in the second.

<table width="100%">Top Menu</table>
<table width="100%">
<tr>
<td width="20%">Left Menu</td>
<td width="80%">Main Content</td>
</tr>
</table>

Here you may need to "fix" cellpadding/cellspacing to "0" to achieve the
desired effect.

Hope that helps,

Marc David Johnson
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