Re: Blank in Netscape

by Byron Canfield <barn(at)byronc.com>

Date:	Mon, 06 Apr 1998 16:45:48 -0700
To:	Jim Rosenfield <jnr(at)insightweb.com>, hwg-graphics(at)mail.hwg.org, hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org, bkelton(at)soundcom.net
In-Reply-To:	bitshop
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> ...in MSIE4 I get a nice gray box. When I display is in netscape 
> Communicator I get white, no block. I thought Communicator was supposed 
> to display table cell bgcolors.

Netscape will display table cell backgrounds, but the for Netscape, the
cell must contain something (and, no, a simple space won't do it). This is
one of the reasons so many HTML authors rely on the single-pixel
transparent GIF trick.

Barn
(Byron Canfield)
http://www.byronc.com
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