Topic: strange tables in Opera

I've been working on a shopping system. In a product listing I want to have a little symbol before each item, and that the colour of the symbol should be changable through the admin system.

So what I did then was to make small tables, where I could change the backgrund colour to any colour I want.

The problem is that those tiny tables looks very weird in Opera.

Here is a page of what I am talking about: http://www.donaldj.com/tabletest.html

Anyone has any idea how to make them look ok in Opera too?

Also, would there be any problem with an approach like this? Like if I have a couple of dozen items in a list, and each of them has the little table in front of them. Cause I guess it will be quite a lot of tables... Is there any other approach that might work better? I did not want to use images, because then the colours could not be change to any you want.

heh, i didnt get it at first as to what the problem is..

my advice? just use images. it will save you in the long run (tables take a while to render, especially in netscape). if your image isnt antialiased, you wont have to worry about "halos" when you make it transparent.

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ZOX, you should definitively use images. Those tables not only will slow down page rendereing, but will also increase page size (and you'll start noticing this, when there are a lot of items on the page).