Re: Who is right? IE5.5 or Mozilla/Netscape?

On 3/19/02 2:03 AM, "Andrew Clover" <and@doxdesk.com> wrote:

> Adam van den Hoven <list@adamvandenhoven.com> wrote:
> 
>> The first was to use 3 COL elements for the first table and 5 for the
>> others. The first COL is always width="*" and the others match up from
>> the end. This didn't work very well at all.
> 
> AFAIK no popular browser supports MultiLengths ('*', '3*' etc) in columns.
> Most authors use percentages instead, though there are other issues with
> that.

IE5/Mac supports MultiLengths.
 
>> The second was to use the same set of COL elements for all 3 tables and
>> simply colspan="3" the first column of the first table. This works really
>> well in IE5.5 (WinNT). However, if I try it on either NS6.2 or Mozilla
>> 0.9.9 the result is very different
> 
> Try giving the tables 'table-layout: fixed'. This will ensure the widths
> of the columns are honoured exactly (even if that causes some cells to be
> too small to fit their contents). It also means the browser can display
> the table incrementally. Without this style, browsers' own layout algorithms
> may change the widths of columns.
> 
> The rule 'table { table-layout: fixed }' made everything line up for me in
> your example. BTW, please post a URL rather than attaching the example when
> the code is as long as this!

Agreed!

Thanks,

Tantek

Received on Tuesday, 19 March 2002 22:56:05 UTC