[WEB4LIB] Netscape and the thin black line

[Vicki Falkland]

reply to the list instead of individuals due to numerous personal responses.

i've become intrigued by this little bit of code. 

i've tried all suggestions: removed white space, put code all on one line,
added height="1" to <td>, added <br> after <img> ... a bunch of things (oh,
and obviously i've included bgcolor which i neglected to include that in my
original question).
people keep telling "i do <this> and it works for me". well, i paste their
code into MY editor, display it in NS6, and i get a fat black line.
older Netscapes display it fine, IE displays it fine. 
whats up with NS6 ??
or am i STILL missing something??

v.


>> >
>> >----- Original Message -----
>> >From: "Vicki Falkland" <library at cryptic.rch.unimelb.edu.au>
>> >To: "Multiple recipients of list" <web4lib at webjunction.org>
>> >Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 7:40 PM
>> >Subject: [WEB4LIB] Netscape and the thin black line
>> >
>> >
>> >> Hi folks,
>> >>
>> >> Once upon a time, it was possible to create a thin black line across
>part
>> >> of a table with the following code:
>> >>
>> >> <td>
>> >> <img src="blank.gif" height="1" width="1" alt="" >
>> >> </td>
>> >>
>> >> I've been looking at one of our older, defunct sites on newer versions
>of
>> >> Netscape, just out of curiosity.
>> >>
>> >> Funny thing is, Navigator stand-alone 4.08 displays it just fine, but
>> >newer
>> >> Netscapes (6+) don't collapse the table row to a thin line - it
>displays
>> >it
>> >> at full height as if there were text in it.
>> >>
>> >> I know that folk here in general say this practice is "not on", that it
>is
>> >> not "good design", but I really am curious. A lot of sites still do
>this.
>> >> How do they get this "thin black line" to display in Netscape?
>> >>
>> >> Or have I missed something entirely???
>> >>
>> >> vicki
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