TABLE WITH PRE AS CONTENTS

I have prepared a stripped example that 
demos the problem. Line returns in pre element
are not being recognized leading to long lines
that overwrite other cells as well as run out of containing
cell.   

john in niagara   
'-- 
-- 
John Russell, VE3LL@RAC.CA
http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3ll
http://home.cogeco.ca/~trains
http://home.cogeco.ca/~cipher
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html lang="en" xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head><title>Testing Table with Pre:VE3LL@RAC.CA</title>
<link href="zestyle.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<style type="text/css">
table.card {margin:0px;border:0px;padding:0px}
td.card {background:#ffffff;margin:10px;border:2px solid black;padding:10px}
</style></head>

<body><h1>Testing Table with Pre:VE3LL@RAC.CA</h1>
<table class="card" summary="*">
<tr><th>CAR CARD</th><th>WAYBILL</th><th>MODIFIED WAYBILL</th></tr>
<tr><td class="card"><pre>

Car Type: _____________

Report Mark: __________

Car No.: ______________

A.A.R. Class: ________

Special Features:

_______________________

_______________________

_______________________

</pre></td>
<td class="card"><pre>

Commodity: _____________

Car Type Reqd: _________

Shipper: _______________

Origin: ________________

Consignee: _____________

Destination: ___________

Remarks: _______________

________________________

</pre></td>
<td class="card"><pre>

Waybill #: ____________

Car Type: _____________

Consignee: ____________

Station: ______________

</pre></td></tr></table>
</body></html>

Received on Monday, 2 May 2005 12:03:06 UTC