This Weeks Tip & Trick - Proper Use Of Tables

[finnbear]

Originally posted by RawAlex
finnbear, there are other ways to make tables (and I have experimented with at least one other way) but I find that they don't work correctly in all browsers and don't even look them same under different circumstances.

As Greenguy said, keep everything at or under 750, make sure the math totals up (within a pixel or two) for nested tables and cells, and you are pretty much good to go.

Download an alternate browser, and check your work from time to time in that "other" browser. You will be surprised to find out that IE is very forgiving for missing or improperly closed tags, and other browsers are not. I use firefox now, and I see tons more table errors that I did before.

Alex

I use width and cellspacing and cellpadding tags with all my tables, so they are always like I want them to be.

I also check my sites with Netscape 4.7. If it looks OK in that old monster, it looks OK in every browser. It don't forgive anything, and if you have errors you often have a blank page. Has happen to me in the past.