Simple <TD> question

[weirdbeardmt]

Does NS have a background image element for a <TD> ?

<TD background="images/someimage.gif"> works fine in IE but not in NS.

Why!? Could I do it with CSS?

[neil]

That should work in Netscape, have you closed the <TD> tag?

[weirdbeardmt]

Originally posted by neil
That should work in Netscape, have you closed the <TD> tag?

Yes. Any other ideas?

[weirdbeardmt]

OK.

Explain this.

Using <TD Background="something.gif"></TD> works fine in IE, not in NS.

BUT write a few letters within the tags so

<TD Background="something.gif">Sitepoint</TD> and it works - the whole image displays in NS.

Why is that?

[oblig]

Lol yeah. It's the same with bgcolor="..." I think

I think it's because Netscape doesn't see the point in defining a background/bgcolor for a td that has nothing in it.

A nice transparent GIF should solve it.

[meztec]

ya Netscape has that problem where it read the table data if there isn't anything there.

Transparent gif's or &nbsp; works just fine to correct that bug.

[dhtmlgod]

or u can simply put &nbsp;

[weirdbeardmt]

Putting in a space doesn't work.

What is the special char value for it? Something like %20?

Maybe that'd work...

[Anarchos]

It's &amp;nbsp;

[oblig]

It depends what the td is for - if it's a pixel wide/in height then you'd want a transparent GIF. Otherwise you could just use a non breaking space (code above)

[weirdbeardmt]

Bingo. The old &nbsp worked like a treat.

Cheers guys.