[WEB4LIB] Netscape and tables

[cmetcalf at uottawa.ca]

Hi Bert and everybodeh,
'bout the table problem
<I'd like to position one table directly beneath another
table, why is it that NS and IE display the second table
next to the first instead of beneath it? >

I've spent hrs running into this situation again and again
for various pages.
Then had instances of pages that seemed to wrk fine:::I
don't know why this happens.
My solution in your case would be to use a single table.
insert two rows (of a single cell each). And then paste your
tables as you had
originally arranged your tables, placing the tables into
these two cells (one overtop of the other).

Netscape seems to better format appearances when they are in
a cell content.
I've been running a cascading stylesheet for some of my
pages.
Between IE and Netscape, the results are fairly identical.
but yesterday I noticed some of my page headers were not
properly font-formatted by the .css when
viewed in Netscape (while the body text of the page appeared
perfectly).

The headers were originally standing "on their own", above
and outside of tables
that stored the body text of my html pages.

When I placed the header in a single cell row
above but *within* the same table of perfect body text data
page), the .css was able to regain effect on the page and
control the
fontly appearance of the page's/data table headers.

weird. In either scenario, IE didn't kick up a fuss and
submitted to the rules the .css
imposed.

Cameron Metcalf
cmetcalf at uottawa.ca
phone 613.562.5800 ext. 3225

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bert Coenen" <Bert.Coenen at law.kuleuven.ac.be>
To: "Multiple recipients of list"
<web4lib at webjunction.org>
Sent: Friday, August 04, 2000 7:55 AM
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Freak JavaScript problem


I have this weird problem: I added some code to a page -that
is only meant to
open as a frame in another page- to ensure that it doesn't
open in its own
window.

this is the code:

    var strParent = "index.html";
    if (top.location.href.indexOf(strParent) == -1) {
    top.location.replace(strParent);
    }

The code works fine but I have two problems.
one: the page does not stop loading (even when I click the
stop button), this
isn't the end of the world, in fact I have already had this
problem with other
pages on the internet.
two: I cannot print the page in Netscape (IE works just
fine), I get a message
telling me that there are no pages to print
Without the code: no problems whatsoever.

I am working on a win98 machine with NS 4.73 and IE 5.

And while I'm here, two more questions:
one: I'm using tables with a fixed width and I'd like to
position one table
directly beneath another table, why is it that NS and IE
display the second
table next to the first instead of beneath it? What I have
to do now is insert
lots of <br> to move the second table down, is there a
cleaner way to do this.
two: I have already posted this but some of you may have
missed this one: one
of the web-databases that we offer on the computers in our
library causes the
left mouse button to stop working in Netscape; does anyone
know of a solution
to this problem?