Re: nested tables and Netscape

If what you mean by "can't be viewed" is that the page is blank, the
webmaster meant that he was missing a <./table> tag.  Or maybe they had more
than 10 tables deep in their nesting, which is a limitation in Communicator.
Hard to say.

Justin H.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Barbara Money" <bmoney(at)naisp.net>
To: <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 3:49 PM
Subject: nested tables and Netscape


> What is the deal with nested tables? Not to start a browser war, and
> please don't anyone bite my head off, but, I went to a site yesterday (I
> forget where) and one of the pages could not be viewed in my Netscape
> 4.76 so I wrote the webmaster. They replied it was the "nested tables
> bug" in Netscape, and their site was designed to be viewed in IE 5, so
> ok, I guess we'll have to fix it for you poor unfortunates who still use
> Netscape.
>
> Anyway, I must be missing what nested tables actually are. I thought
> they were tables inside of tables, with all the /tr's and /td's and
> /table's tags neat and closed for each set of tables. I have worked on
> sites with tables inside of tables (albeit in FrontPage) and had no
> trouble viewing them in Netscape which I prefer. Maybe "nested tables"
> are really some other animal altogether. Would someone care to enlighten
> me?
>
> Barbara Money
> The Essential Image
>

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