Please tell me what is wrong with this coding!

[htmletc]

I've looked through this and re-looked through it many, many times. I can't find what's wrong with the code. In IE it works great, but in all NS versions (except 6) the table is about twice as wide as I specify. It appears to "push" further over further than I specify at the cells which house the "earthlightssmall3.jpg" and earthlightssmall4.jpg:"

<table width="450" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
<tr>
<td colspan="3" width="450" height="75"><img src="../graphx/earthlightssmall1.jpg" width="450" height="75" border="0" alt="Earthlights"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="2" width="100" height="150"><img src="../graphx/earthlightssmall2.jpg" width="100" height="150" border="0" alt="Earthlights"></td>
<td colspan="2" width="350" height="75"><img src="../graphx/earthlightssmall3.jpg" width="350" height="75" border="0" alt="Earthlights"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" width="350" height="75"><img src="../graphx/earthlightssmall4.jpg" width="350" height="75" border="0" alt="Earthlights"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" width="450" height="50" align="center" valign="middle"><p><font face="Courier New, Courier"><span style="Font-Size : 14px">Earthlights.jpg (courtesy of <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/">NASA</a>)</span></font></p></td>
</tr>
</table>

Thanks in advance for any code-solving!

[sbdi]

you would probaly be better off using % instead of pixels i only glanced over the table but that normaly causes problems

[honging]

the first and last colspan should be 2, not 3, and all the other ones should be removed.

[htmletc]

Thanks Honging! That didn't even cross my mind. Just a stupid mistake. Oh well, they say you can't proof-read your own work. They're right. Thanks.

-Colin

[Nicky]

I can't quite see how the use of either % or pixels would casue problems. If there are any problems they are inherent to the design and coding NOT the use of certain tags and attributes.

[htmletc]

While I agree with Nicky fully, perhaps Sbdi was referring to flexibility rather than causing problems and just didn't explain it well? I know that percentages are much more flexible in terms of page display, but whether percentages or pixels are used shouldn't create any code flaws regardless.