Strange Table behavior in Netscape

[Bobb Menk]

Earl,

>      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.

The table was created using a standard HTML editor (HomeSite) and I'm 
testing it on O'Reilly's WebSite 1.1 under NT 3.51.  The code has 
been tested against the "Bobby" service at CAST.  (Techno-questions
demand techno-answers and "techno" is what I need at the moment ;).

I've had two suggestions so far that it may be a Netscape 3.0 problem 
since it appears to go away under 3.1.  I'm downloading 3.1 even now 
to test it against the full page.  

Bobb


> 
> 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
> 
> =========================================================
> 
> 
> <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>
> 
> ======================================================== 
> Bobb Menk, Internet Librarian, Lane Memorial Library 
> Hampton, NH 03842  603-926-3368
> bmenk at hampton.lib.nh.us
> 
Bobb Menk, Internet Librarian, Lane Memorial Library
Hampton, NH 03842  603-926-3368
bmenk at hampton.lib.nh.us