Have specifed table to have no cell padding, borders, etc., and all cell alignments set to "top" and "left", as I want to be able to align things as finely as possible. Looks OK in DW3, but both Netscape and IE add vertical space between the cells, making my images drop down in the layout. I have tried a separate table within the major one, but results are unpredictable.
Take another look at each individual cell. You have rows aligned the way you said, but you don't have the cells aligned. I think that should fix your problem.
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Hi! Have checked and reset all alignments and played with some simpler tables - the only table that did not misbehave was a 2 x 2 with all cells the same size - am stumped!
What's different? Alignment attributes are specified for each cell. That's what was missing. I've also included blank lines in the cells that didn't have anything in them. Netscape doesn't like to render tables the way you want if there are blank cells.
Dreamweaver is a great tool, but should be no substitute for a working knowledge of HTML. Be sure to take a look at the source that is under the page to see how something is coded. You should be able to get a working knowledge of code that way.
Good luck!
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To C&M Web Design - You are so right about knowing the html - I am still in a real learning curve! Thank you very much for your time and help - it is very much appreciated, and you have given that ol' learning curve a good boost!
To Christian - It sure is a small world - I used to live next to Rocky Neck too! - I agree, it is a great photo!
HI Nal,
Your problem is very simple. just put:
<body topmargin="0" leftmargin="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" background="Images/art_speckle_bkgrnd.gif">
and it will work perfectly! if still no change then you will have to add few transparent gifs on the right.
if needed just contact me at nashir5@btinternet.com
Hello Nashir!
Thanks for your response - I was finally, after many experiments, able to get rid of the autoinsertion of lines by specifying the length and width for each cell in the table along with the alignment for each cell in the table - but what a lot of work! You can bet I am going to try your suggestion!
tthe attributes topmargin and leftmargin only work in version 3 browsers but don't work in 4.0 or in Navigator 4+. To set your margins to zero for all browsers then you have to use:
Of course the ""'s are required for Navigator 5.0 and any document that hopes to use XML in IE 5+.
If you truly want to build cross browser code you need to follow the HTML 3.2 and 4.0 standards plus any requirements for XML like the ""'s and case-matching (i.e. <p> cannot be closed by </P> in an XML document). Hopefully we won't have to have do cross-browser code for too much longer (My personal guess is 2-4 years).
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[This message has been edited by wluke (edited January 30, 2000).]
The plot thickens! At this point I am wondering what the impact of 2-4 more years of cross-browser code in connection with XML is going to have on those of us using web authoring packages - seems unless updates get offered periodically (as opposed to upgrades) things could get...complicated! And will new browser versions opt to recognize older code as well as newer?
At the beginning of this thread, the statement was made that there is no substitute for knowing how to code manually - I totally agree (working on it!) but also believe that the authoring packages are not going away.
Many thanks for your information - follow it up I certainly will!
It depends on the manufacturer of the software. Netscape has chosen not to be backwards compatible with their upcoming Communicator/Navigator 5.0 packages. These packages are supposed to be compliant with the existing standards of HTML 4.0, XML, CSS1 and partial CSS-2, XSL and EcmaScript (the new official name for standard javascript). This means a lot of sites relying on Proprietary tags like LAYER, ILAYER, BLINK and others will not work properly or may not even show up in the new browser. Expect Microsoft to follow suit with the next major version of Internet Explorer as following standards can bring a lot of users back into the Netscape fold.
Now with XML things will get easier. A design program can be built that uses XML DTD's (Document Tag Definitions) to build each HTML or XHTML tag. Then when a new tag comes out you only have to update the definition file for the program to allow proper use of that tag. DreamWeaver is close to this but uses Javascript instead of XML for added functionality to be built it. The only way software companies will make standards compliant browsers and editors is if we as users and developers demand them. There is an organization that is spearheading this effort at www.webstandards.org.
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Come Play one of the hottest games on the net.
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