RE: Forms & White Space

At 12:59 PM 21/09/00 -0600, you wrote:
>yes, i've had trouble with weird extra space within table cells that is
>actually created by the <form></form> tags.  if you put those tags outside
>the table cell, you may get a nesting error, but it will work (don't ask me
>why).

Actually that's the right way to do it like for example:

<form ...>
<table ...>
<tr>
<td>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>

Either that or

<table ...>
<tr>
<td>
     <form ...>
     </form>
</td>
</tr>
</table>

What is wrong is any variation of this:

<table ...>
<form ...>
<tr>
<td>
</td>
</tr>
</form>
</table>

... where the form tags are inserted in between the table elements and=20
within the table tags themselves.  This method has been suggested as a good=
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way to do it on the list recently but it's really not since it's a nesting=
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error and will behave unexpectedly depending on the browser used.  White=20
space and form elements is something we have to live and deal with.  CSS=20
may help depending on the browser but our pages will always end up looking=
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"wrong" in someone's browser.  That's a fact that's hard to accept for many=
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designers who expect pixel perfect control of their pages but that is just=
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not possible in all situations on the Web.  Better accept it and move=20
on...  The old principle of form follows function is even more true=
 online...

HTH!

St=E9phane

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