netscape table breakthrough

Hello

after several stressful episodes trying to work why my Netscape tables weren't working, the problem seems to have been sidestepped by using nested tables with a fixed width. Previously I had been sizing the table width to 100% of screen, and none of the formatting would 'stick'. Now it's working like a charm.

But.... can anybody shed some light on how the tables in NS might work better using the percentage system (as I would like this flexibilitiy)? Thank you,

PS I had received advice such as to use a transparent gif sized to cell width/height, but I found the cells would turn out larger than the alloted transparent gif. Also, adding <br> after each image didn't seem to make a difference.

Have you tried to add a nonbreaking space in the empty cells instead of that image or the <BR>?

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Good luck,
Bas

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E-mail me at: b.vandermeijden@pecoma.nl

[This message has been edited by MeijdenB (edited September 15, 2000).]

You might also want to try formatting your html thus:

<table>
<tr>
<td>Content goes here</td>
<td>And here</td>
</tr>
</table>

Rather than:

<table>
<tr>
<td>
Content goes here
</td>
<td>
And here
</td>
</tr>
</table>

It seems the less line breaks you use, the more "sane" the result in Netscape. Screwy, but there you go...