[WEB4LIB] Netscape and the thin black line

[Andro Gagné]

Vicki:

         At 02:29 PM 5/22/02 +1000, you wrote:

> >         Well, there is one other requirement which I didn't cover, as I
> >was assuming that you were referring to a page which had a screen's worth
> >of content in the table.
>
>i am. the table is 100% wide.

         I'm sorry...my explanation here probably was not clear 
enough.  What I meant by "a screen's worth of content in the table" was not 
the width attribute in the table tag, but the amount of vertical space on a 
monitor screen that your page takes up as a result of having text and/or 
image content within the content-carrying cell(s) of the table.  If you 
have no other space-occupying content in your table code than the code for 
the line, the line will be "fat."  Fill up a monitor screen with content in 
your page, and the line's "fatness" will go away.


> >You
> >can see an example of the use of table code for creating lines on this Web
> >site's pages:
> >
> >                 http://www.cognitivecoaching.cc/
> >
>
>right. ok. i went there, using NS6. it looks fine. i stole a piece of your
>code:
>         <TR>
>         <TD BGCOLOR="#660066" HEIGHT=2 COLSPAN=4>
>         <IMG SRC="./images/dot_clear.gif" WIDTH=1 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0><BR>
>         </TD>
>         </TR>
>i pasted that into a blank document, viewed it in NS6, and the line is FAT.
>i don't get this. i just don't get it at all :(

         As you probably have surmised from my response above, the next 
step is to place enough content in the content-carrying cell(s) of the 
table to take up a screen's worth of vertical space.  (You also don't need 
"COLSPAN=4" if you haven't coded for 4 columns in your table, but this 
isn't what's keeping your line "fat.")

Best regards,

Andy
Andro Gagné Web Design
http://www.andro-gagne.com/