[Cumbria] Daft HTML Question

[Schwuk]

Adam Pigg wrote:
> On a side note (to people in general), im learning html php at the 
> moment and using quanta for my coding.  the pages use tables heavily 
> (and nested) and have graphics in the corners to make rounded edges, 
> this requires setting the cell height/width and the pages look superb in 
> konqueror, but both mozilla and i.e. seem to ignore most of the cell 
> heights and make the cells way to large which screws up the page. 
> Suggestions welcome while i trawl the web for answers.

OK - I'll bite, I've done plenty of stuff with PHP.

Before trying to answer your problem, I'll recommend that you look into 
developing pages using the standards (which aren't - I know) - XHTML/CSS 
etc. Using (nested) tables for layouts is easy and powerful - and can 
produce some very good results - but you'll end up wasting alot of 
effort 'tweaking' your sites to look nearly the same across all 
browsers. Unless you have a real need to develop for older browsers, go 
with standards and make your pages degrade well for older/different 
(e.g. handheld or text-based) browsers so that the content remains 
available...

As a starting point for your problem, I'd look into the additional 
options for tables like cellpadding/cellspacing, then look for stray 
whitespace, differing font sizes (that you're not controlling) etc. If 
you can't narrow it down, I'll be happy to take a look at the code for 
you - an extra pair of eyes always helps (ask Mat re:Perl scripts).
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Schwuk