Strange Table behavior in Netscape

[Earl Young]

     How did you create the table?  Did you use an HTML editor, vi, Word, 
     or what?  On which server software are you testing the table?  Did you 
     validate the code against an HTML verifier?  I apologize for 
     responding with a slug of techno-questions.


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Subject: Strange Table behavior in Netscape
Author:  bmenk at hampton.lib.nh.us at INTERNET
Date:    5/19/97 11:14 AM


I'm getting some very odd behavior from Netscape 3.0 with some tables 
I have set up and would appreciate advice.
     
Testing with multiple browsers reveals that his doesn't happen under 
MSIE or Mosaic, just Netscape.
     
Using a table like the abbreviated one below, here's what happens:
     
1) Netscape will sporadically completely refuse to display or 
noticeably hesitate to display the submit buttons in the table.  By 
this I mean that it will display the background color for each cell, 
but refuse to display the "submit" buttons at all, or it will only 
display the "submit" buttons after a significant delay, say 20-30 
seconds.  Finally, it will sometimes display the buttons, but cease 
to do so when you scroll through the page, though in this instance it 
will usually continue to display the buttons in the top row of the 
table.
     
2)  Netscape will not vertically center the "submit" buttons 
within the cell.  Even though valign=middle is what the browser is 
supposed to assume in the absence of a specific tag, all my cells are 
acting as if I had explicitly entered "valign=top".  Using explicit 
vertical alignments won't alter where the buttons display either.
     
Below are the tags for the table plus the tags for the first cell.  
The executable the cell points to is a search of an index built with 
the Excite search engine.  The canned search represented by the 
each button continues to work properly whether the button itself 
displays or not.
     
Suggestions, pointers, fixes, & general help would all be 
appreciated.  TIA.
     
Bobb Menk
     
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<TABLE CELLPADDING=6 CELLSPACING=2  BORDER=0 width=80%>
     
<TR align=center>
     
 <TD bgcolor=#FF0029><FORM ACTION="/cgi-bin/AT-referencesearch.exe" 
 METHOD=POST><INPUT NAME="search" input type="hidden" 
 VALUE="almanac"><INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT" NAME="submit" 
 VALUE="Almanacs"></FORM></TD>
     
(multiple rows omitted here)
     
</TABLE>
     
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Bobb Menk, Internet Librarian, Lane Memorial Library 
Hampton, NH 03842  603-926-3368
bmenk at hampton.lib.nh.us