Topic: table problems... (Page 1 of 1)

Ok, I'm working on a revamp for reptilegirl.com. Take a look at it in explorer 5.x to see what it's 'supposed' to look like. Now look at it in Navigator 4.x.

Notice the title table. In IE it has dark black borders, but they don't show up in NN. I accomplished this by setting the cellspacing to 4 and the bgcolor to black. I also tried using style="background-color: #black". Neither work in NN. Any ideas how I can get that to work correctly? Note that when I set the border to 4 and the borderbackground to black, the effect is different (the inner cell borders don't have a width of 4), that's not what I want.

Also, you'll see the background picture in the main contents cell doesn't align correctly (middle right) in NN. I accomplished this with inline CSS to get it working in IE. Any ideas on making that work in NN?

Thanks in advance.



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netscape 4.7x doesnt support background image positioning.

it doesnt like attributes (like background-color) given to table rows. you hard define the width of the table (which is something that looks terrible for high res people), so you may as well just make it one big image like a banner. theres so few colors that a gif wouldnt be very big (you could also make a repeating background image that mimics what you are trying to do, which would make the table flexible for different resolutions).


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drakkor,

Take a look at this page I did on how to achieve cross-browser table borders. It's a workaround but it works for all browsers I've tested.
http://osiris.bugimus.com/gurus/tableborder1.html

On the inner table just set the cellspacing to whatever width you want and it should do the trick.

i would have recommended nested tables, but one must use it in moderation, since tables take a while to render.

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Bugimus, that's great, I bet that'll work perfectly.
Thanks



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