Ie Not Wrapping Text In Table Column
Hi, I have this huge problem I've encountered with IE. Although I don't use IE, I design my sites for both IE and Mozilla browsers. So, here is my problem.
I have a table with 3 columns 15%,70%,15%. On the first column, IE isn't wrapping the text correctly. Its expanding the column like 5-10% before breaking the text. I'm looking at it on both Mozilla Firefox and IE and IE is the only one that has the problem. Can anyone figure out how I can fix this....Thanks.
http://imgod.us/temp/iecrap.html
Notice I have this url in the first column and I have a space inside that url to assure the line breaks.
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Busy posted this at 06:00 — 14th May 2004.
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couple of things to try, put the first td's content on the same line as the start and end tag, like so:
15%
....
.jpg
another thing is try remove the middle td's width
another thing is take the link out of the DOC tag
If you can, try whatever works in IE5/.5 and IE6 as they sometimes both display differently
The cause is from the middle td being empty, if you had content (full width) in there it should size properly, a cheat way to do it (even just while testing) is to put a transparent gif in there 70% wide, this isn't good practice to get into. And if anyone asks I didn't tell you this
section31 posted this at 07:34 — 14th May 2004.
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huhhhhhhhhh. no
Suzanne posted this at 18:17 — 14th May 2004.
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I'm sure I'm going to regret attempting to help you after reading how you treated someone else trying to help you...
I'm a sucker for punishment, so: http://www.zerocattle.com/examples/imgod.html
It appears that the url, despite being broken up, is causing the problem. Any other text is fine.
section31 posted this at 22:14 — 14th May 2004.
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hehe...thanks for the reply and you are absolutely right. I realized that a few hours before i checked this thread again. I started parsing the urls and it works fine now. its something to do with url syntax that ie hates.
Sorry about the rude reply to Busy, but those were dumb suggestions.
Suzanne posted this at 23:01 — 14th May 2004.
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Actually, they weren't dumb. Just not suggestions that helped your particular problem. There are known issues for some versions of IE (and older Netscape) that some of those suggestions would work for. Additionally, because those suggestions did not work, I could rule them out and look for other causes. Which I did.
Every failure is a valuable lesson.
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