tables in IE & Netscape / Opera / Mozilla

[Table Testing]

Hi,

I've been messing around with tables and found that I can get my
desired result in IE no problem but Netscape / Opera and Mozilla all
throw a wobbly.

I can't for the life of me figure out why. Could someone pleeeeease
take a look and save my head from imploding.

The age is at:

http://members.optusnet.com.au/tabletesting/

It has columns of varying width and mouseovers. I've taken the
mouseovers out and tried it but it doesn't make any difference.

Taken out the gaps between <TR> & <TD> etc - no joy.

Put in a DOCTYPE declaration - no cigar

What do i have to do?!?!?

TIA

RV

[Alexander Johannesen]

Table Testing <ta**********@optusnet.com.au> wrote:

http://members.optusnet.com.au/tabletesting/
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What do i have to do?!?!?

Learn HTML? :) You're telling the table that you have a LOT of
columns here;

<td colspan="643">

Roughly, that you have 643 of them. You don't. Also, some of the
width attributes to the images have "px" notation. That is an error.
Also, you don't specify widths, neither for the table itself nor any
of the columns. Fix this first, and see if it helps.
Alexander
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[Graham J]

> What do i have to do?!?!?

Apart from the odd stray 'px' in your image widths, you seem to be using
'colspan' to try and set the cell width (which the browsers will probably
work out for themselves anyway) when you mean 'width'.

[Table Testing]

Thanks for the feedback. One thing I didn't mention is that I was
given this table pretty much as is without the rollovers as an
exercise in javascript / html.

I found the colspan settings wierd too and tried changing them to
width= but that doesn't help. The odd 'px' are due to me being
tired... one of the things I tried was to specify the width units and
I guess I left in a few after I found that didn't work either.

As I said I've got the table going fine in IE and then noticed that
the exercise mentioned that it should work in Netscape, Opera and
Mozilla. I loaded them up expecting to see pretty much the same and
was horrified that they make such a mess of it.

The table as it was originally provided also has the same problem.

thanks anyway.

RV

On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 16:46:32 +0100, "Graham J"
<in***************@orangebucket.co.uk> wrote:

What do i have to do?!?!?

Apart from the odd stray 'px' in your image widths, you seem to be using
'colspan' to try and set the cell width (which the browsers will probably
work out for themselves anyway) when you mean 'width'.

[Graham J]

> I found the colspan settings wierd too and tried changing them to

width= but that doesn't help. The odd 'px' are due to me being
tired... one of the things I tried was to specify the width units and
I guess I left in a few after I found that didn't work either.

Actually now I've looked at it more closely, the colspan *is* 'correct' for
what it is trying to do. I had a brain fart there.