I tried this:

<table style="width: 300px; height: 500px;">...
  <table style="width: 100%; height: 100%;">...

This worked fine in IE5.5, but behaved the same as you described in
Mozilla M18.

What about something like this:

<table style="width: 300px; height: 500px;">...
  <table style="width: 290px; height: 490px;">...

This seems to work fine in both.

To answer your question, though, it would seem like this is a bug. It's
actually a pretty longstanding bug, as Netscape 4.x does it as well.

Good luck!
- Jeff

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On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Ed Lazor wrote:

> If you create a table with a height of 500 and put a second table inside of 
> it with a height of 100%, the second table should end up with a height of 
> 500 minus any cellspacing, cellpadding, etc. from the surrounding table.
> 
> The code listed below works in IE, but not in Netscape.  Netscape makes the 
> inner table tall enough to hold the content and appears to ignore table, 
> row, or cell height specifications.  Is this a Netscape bug?  Is there a 
> work around?
> 
> -Ed
> 
> 
> <table height=500 width=300><tr><td bgcolor=black valign=top>
> 	<table height=100% width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=white>testing</td></tr></table>
> </td></tr></table>
> 
> 

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