- From: David Ornstein <davido@apocalypse.org>
- Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1996 11:21:10 -0800
- To: chuck@pipex.net, www-talk@w3.org
At 04:49 PM 2/1/96 +0000, Chuck Foster wrote: >Hi, > >What is the correct way for a browser to render something like: > > <tr><td>hello</td><td>there<br></td></tr> > >The reason I ask is that the 2b6 Netscape Navigator has suddenly >changed the way it is rendered from a single line to a line with >another blank underneath. > >This meant that the various tables that took advantage of that in >order to still maintain lines for non-table browsers now look >horrendous, as the text does not align correctly (yes valign=top will >do so, but that isn't the point!). > >So what should the rendering be? I haven't reread the draft to be sure what it says, but FWIW, I looked at the BrowserCaps test for this [1] and there seems to be wide variation in interpretation. Some browsers interpret a trailing <br> in a table as a real line and some ignore it. [1] http://www.objarts.com/bc/Generated/test-BreakInTablePost.html ----------------------------------------------------- David Ornstein Outbreak: http://objarts.com/outbreak-unreg BrowserCaps: http://objarts.com/bc Personal Info: http://objarts.com/davido
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