[WEB4LIB] Netscape table trauma - respecting the TD width attribute

[Darryl Friesen]

> I going out of my mind wrestling with Netscape (4.76) and its inability to
> properly render HTML. Please help!
> I'm not asking for it to do anything too complicated

I was going to make some remark here about how asking/expecting Netscape to
do just anything you want is usually too complicated, but there are a lot of
people on the list that still seem to actually like Netscape, so I won't.
:)

> -- I just want it to
> respect the TD cell width I set at 40%; it just seems to ignore the tag.
> Dreamweaver and IE 5 render it just fine:
> http://www6.wittenberg.edu/lib/test/phil.php?search=philosophical
> The "Title" column is set to a width of 40%, but is displaying at
somewhere
> around 25%. Since none of the other cells/columns have their widths set, I
> don't see where this should be a problem. Can anyone see what I'm doing
wrong?

My experience with Netscape is that it treats these as "suggested" widths
only, and will quite readily adjust those numbers as it sees fit (depending
on the data in the other columns).  IE and Opera seem to treat widths as
absolute, whenever possible, assuming that if you asked for 40%, then you
probably had a reason and meant 40%.

So, no, I don.t think you've done anything wrong.  Netscape has.


- Darryl

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  Information Technology Services Division,
  University of Saskatchewan
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