Re: Tables

by "Mike O'Lary" <ctfuzzy(at)canopy.net>

Date:	Tue, 12 Dec 2000 10:00:09 -0500
To:	"Andrew Angelopoulos" <angelopoulos(at)csi.com>, <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
References:	enterprise workhorse
	todo: View Thread, Original

Well Andrew, for starters you only have THREE columns in the table.

Asking the browser to "properly" interpret a col span definition of "15" is
a bit much. For that matter, asking it to render any definition greater
than THREE is asking a bit much of the browser.

HTH,
Fuzzy.


At 08:30 AM 12/12/00 -0600, Andrew Angelopoulos wrote:
>(Resent. Sorry if this is the second time, but I never saw the first one
>appear)
>
>Help. This is making me nuts!
>
>What am I doing wrong?
>
>Look at the sample below and find the table data with the letter "M" If
>colspan is missing or set to 1 is looks like colspan is set to 8 or 9. In
>IE, if cellspacing is set to 3 it works just fine. If I set COLSPAN to 2 it
>works just fine in IE and NN (regardless of cellspacing setting). What is
>going on????
>
>Andrew
>
>btw- there are 17 cols (I've tried using the same and different number of
>cols in each row--same result).
>
><HTML>
><BODY>
><TABLE align="center" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="1">
><TR>
><TD colspan="15">XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX</TD>
><TD colspan="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
></TR>
><TR>
><TD colspan="7">1234</TD>
><TD colspan="1">M</TD>
><TD colspan="9">LAST</TD>
></TR>
></TABLE>
></BODY>
></HTML>
>
>

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