Re: Works in IE but not in Opera or Firefox

"John Dalberg" <john_dd (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote

The html below displays correctly in IE but not in Opera nor Firefox. The
problem is with the style attribute for tbody tag. If I remove it, the
display is fine. So my question is what's wrong with the style in tbody..
isn't that supported?

Besides forgetting to specify units for the padding, you use the attribute
BORDERCOLOR in one of your tables. this attribute is IE proprietary, not in
the standards, so what do you expect other browsers to do with it?

Suggestion: code to the standards, validate your code, make sure it works
with standards-compliant browsers first, and then see what you have to do to
work around IE's inadequacies.

C A Upsdell wrote:

Besides forgetting to specify units for the padding, you use the attribute
BORDERCOLOR in one of your tables. this attribute is IE proprietary, not in
the standards, so what do you expect other browsers to do with it?

FWIW, Gecko (newer versions, at least) unfortunately supports it.

"Leif K-Brooks" <eurleif (AT) ecritters (DOT) biz> wrote

C A Upsdell wrote:
Besides forgetting to specify units for the padding, you use the
attribute BORDERCOLOR in one of your tables. this attribute is IE
proprietary, not in the standards, so what do you expect other browsers
to do with it?

FWIW, Gecko (newer versions, at least) unfortunately supports it.

But can you COUNT on Gecko supporting a non-standard feature in the future?

Also, does Gecko support it in standards mode?

On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 18:40:00 -0500, C A Upsdell wrote:

"John Dalberg" <john_dd (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote in message
news:mk4v1n776sdq.i3zxo6t21lpl.dlg (AT) 40tude (DOT) net...
The html below displays correctly in IE but not in Opera nor Firefox. The
problem is with the style attribute for tbody tag. If I remove it, the
display is fine. So my question is what's wrong with the style in tbody..
isn't that supported?

Besides forgetting to specify units for the padding, you use the attribute
BORDERCOLOR in one of your tables. this attribute is IE proprietary, not in
the standards, so what do you expect other browsers to do with it?

I expect them to ignore it like they should.

John

On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 17:31:25 -0800, John Dalberg <john_dd (AT) hotmail (DOT) com>
declared in alt.html:

I expect them to ignore it like they should.

So what _is_ the "correct" behaviour that IE is exhibiting that the
other browsers aren't?

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Mark Parnell
http://www.clarkecomputers.com.au
"Never drink rum&coke whilst reading usenet" - rf 2004

On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 12:53:04 +1100, Mark Parnell wrote:

On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 17:31:25 -0800, John Dalberg <john_dd (AT) hotmail (DOT) com
declared in alt.html:

I expect them to ignore it like they should.

So what _is_ the "correct" behaviour that IE is exhibiting that the
other browsers aren't?

In IE each row has 4 columns and they display correctly as I expect. In
Firefox, the first column with the 'domain name' label is very wide and it
shows on top of the third column of the row beneath it. If I take the style
off from tbody, it displays correctly in Firefox. I just wanted to know why
the style:display is messing things up.

Sorry I don't have a site to show this. I will try tomorrow.

John Dalberg