Re: Problems with IE

Harlan Messinger wrote:

Stop specifying a table width of 100%. Don't specify a width at all.
Right now you specify 100%, which makes the browser make a table the
width of the page, which is much wider than the columns you have
defined, so the browser expands the widths of the columns.

No, that's all right, because the first column is the only one for which
he's trying to specify the width, he's just doing it wrong. Once he gets
it right, the browser should allocate 160 pixels to the first column and
then allocate the remaining width to the other columns.

Some browsers ignore the specified widths if the table is wider than its
contents, though this is not as serious a problem as it used to be.

Also, do style="width:160x; text-align:center;" to center the contents
of that table cell.

Don't tell him to use 160x!

Typo

C A Upsdell wrote:

Harlan Messinger wrote:

Stop specifying a table width of 100%. Don't specify a width at all.
Right now you specify 100%, which makes the browser make a table the
width of the page, which is much wider than the columns you have
defined, so the browser expands the widths of the columns.

No, that's all right, because the first column is the only one for
which he's trying to specify the width, he's just doing it wrong. Once
he gets it right, the browser should allocate 160 pixels to the first
column and then allocate the remaining width to the other columns.

Some browsers ignore the specified widths if the table is wider than its
contents, though this is not as serious a problem as it used to be.

In my experience that's only if a width is specified for EACH column and
the total doesn't add up to the table's width. If at least one column
doesn't have its width specified then the table uses the unfixed
column(s) to allocate the space remaining after allocating space to the
fixed-width columns.

Also, do style="width:160x; text-align:center;" to center the
contents of that table cell.

Don't tell him to use 160x!

Typo

His. You just copied it. Don't feel so bad. )

On 20 fév, 03:28, miguel.ma... (AT) gmail (DOT) com wrote:

Hi there, I finally found the solution in another forum ... a
stupidity of IE (...)

for those of you who think that are teachers or
Gods in the matter, you should have it clear that not always your
suggestions and requests are right. In the free country where I live
in, we all have the right of saying and doing whatever we want to.

SpiderMan,

Those who told you to first validate your markup code and first
validate CSS code gave you excellent feedback and good advices: a very
wide majority of professionals would have told you so and would have
done so themselves.

Those who told you to stop specifying a table width of 100% gave you
an excellent and very relevant suggestion.

Those who invited you to post an URL and not whole code have been
telling you to do what is best for you, for your webpage problem and
for you maximizing your chances of getting assistance and support for
*your* problem.

I sincerly believe you have been treated fairly and correctly here.

Why we won't help you
http://diveintomark.org/archives/200..._wont_help_you
"Validation may reveal your problem. Many cases of it works in one
browser but not another are caused by silly author errors. Typos like
missing attribute values (...)"

Regards, Gérard