- From: Tina Marie Holmboe <tina@elfi.elfi.org>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 16:10:14 +0100
- To: David Poehlman <poehlman1@home.com>, wai-ig list <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 09:38:47AM -0500, David Poehlman wrote: > <tr bgcolor="#eeeeee"> > <td WIDTH="65" HEIGHT="17"><font FACE="Arial" COLOR="#000000"> > <p ALIGN="RIGHT">GS-1</font></td> > <td WIDTH="49" HEIGHT="17"><font FACE="Arial" COLOR="#000000"> > <p ALIGN="RIGHT">15,701</font></td> > <td WIDTH="50" HEIGHT="17"><font FACE="Arial" COLOR="#000000"> > <p ALIGN="RIGHT">16,225</font></td> > > I am referring to the <p> paragraph markers which are being placed in > the > cell. These screw up Jaws' ability to properly parse the table. This > is > the second table I have seen like this in recent weeks. I suspect > these <p> > tags are being generated by an HTML editor. Can anyone shed some > light on > their purpose or necessity? I believe you are seeing the results of - yet another - hack to achieve a visual layout. From the above I would make a guess that they are trying to get extra space on top of the cell, and - as we all know - a <P> 'makes' extra space. But whether it is new ... looks like Frontpage to me; like frontpage always have done stuff. -- - Tina
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