CSS1--padding property

[rdonaghy]

All:

On an external style sheet I'm using for a webpage, I'm trying to use the padding property for a table cell. It works in IE5.5 but not in Netscape 4.74. Could this be a code problem or a browser problem? Here is a snippet of the code. I believe all of the table tags are properly nested because when I run the html code through an html validator there are no errors. One note, no matter what value (em, %, px) I use for padding, it still doesn't work in Netscape. Thanks.

(The css code is followed by the html code.)

.boxpad { padding: 2% }

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<td width="78%" valign="top" class="boxpad">
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%">
<tr>
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</tr>
<tr>
<td width="100%">

<table summary="nav tool" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" bgcolor="#333399" align="center">
<tr valign="top">
<td>
<table summary="box border" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2" border="0" width="100%">
<tr valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
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</tr>
</table>
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</tr>
</table>

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</tr>
</table>
</td>

[Michel V]

I may be wrong, but I think Netscape 4 doesn't allow padding/width/height CSS attributes on table, tr, and td tags. You would have to hard-code them in the HTML source.

[rdonaghy]

I found that when I made a new class on the style sheet and put the class in a <div> tag inside of the table cells in question, the padding took effect. Of course, I'm not sure how this will work on earlier/other browsers.

Any thoughts/ideas from others?