tables and nets.....?

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Ok, here's the deal i have 2 different pages...each with the same table code to get the fine table border.
On one page:
http://www.ru-web.net/wisby/desiderata/desiderata.html

(--only the table at the bottom of the page where the credits go!)this table displays itself fine in IE & NN with the border visable.

Now on this page:
http://www.ru-web.net/wisby/default.html

(--only the one at the bottom of the page where the credits go!)This same code will not display the border on NN???
I've tried other methods to achieve this but this was the only one i could get to work using a background image.

Ignore the rest of the code on the page...i know there are a lot of nested tables...they work fine.

any help will be appriciated
thanks

dragonsjaw

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Hi dragonsjaw,

Checked it out in both IE and NN, and yes, you're right. The border doesn't display in netscape. What confuses me, though, is why it is displaying in IE. In the last 3 table definitions (the ones you are asking about, I presume), you have 'border=0' which should preclude any borders. So, my question is: Is the border part of the graphic? Or am I missing something really obvious here, like an unclosed table, tr, td tag?

Vinny

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Morning dragonsjaw,

So did you come over here to see if you could get a different (involving less work ) answer than over at John's If 10 of us give you 10 different answers I think it will be because the nesting errors in your table are causing inconsistent display problems across the many versions/configurations of NS. If you fix those nesting errors and a problem still remains then at least we would all be working from common ground.. Smiling

Hey Vinny,

Good to see you I though you had another one of the 60 flashbacks and had gone "walkabout" again, good to see it just ain't true. As for the table I think the reason for the inconsistent display problem is there are several nesting errors in this setup. I won't go into it as I already answered it over at John's just thought I would stop by and give em a hard time about trying to get an answer that suites him instead of just fixin the errors.. Smiling

Oh Well Later All

[Edited by caislander on Nov. 21, 2000 at 05:48 PM]

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My main man Cais! Laughing out loud Greetings and salutations!

Walkabout is about all I'm doing nowadays; unfortunately, they all lead me back to the dead-ends Sad

DragonJaw: If Cais supplied you with a solution, I'd follow it. I don't think I remember him ever being wrong about a HTML question, especially one that deals with tables. (He's much more conscientious than I about these things.)

Vinny

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the blades of grass cut me still

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To: caislander
said:
"So did you come over here to see if you could get a different (involving less work ) answer than over at John's If 10 of us give you 10 different answers I think it will be because the nesting errors in your table are causing inconsistent display problems across the many versions/configurations of NS. If you fix those nesting errors and a problem still remains then at least we would all be working from common ground"

I came here to get an answer...
one you didn't seem to have.
and i resent the implication that I don't want to do the work! I have worked on this table problem for 4 days straight.
and per your suggestion i have run this(the default page) through a validator and fixed the nesting errors....all of which had to do with font tags and such NOT table tag errors btw.
the anomaly still exists..but i am sure that you cannot be bothered.

dragonsjaw

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Hey dragonsjaw,

Darn I was Just Kiddin Smiling not trying to get flamed to death please note the ( Smiling ) in my posts .. Well I apologize for any offense you have taken at my last post.. I have posted a working solution here http://quikads.com/courses/nnprob2.htm you will have to put your images back in and put all your style tags back. Please be sure to validate often as you put the style tags back as I still saw 1 or 2 errors both in the style tags..

Later On

CaIslander
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Morning Cais...
too bad there's not a smilie for 'putting foot in mouth':o
more on that over at pr/jsc board...
Thanks for your help with this...but this link does not work?
I will check in at the other board for any further comments on this thread...
Peace?
dragonsjaw

ps....thanks for your reply Vinny...Smiling

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dragonsjaw,

I appear to have uploaded the wrong file to my server Shocked before I was done with your code I had built like 3
different files. I will upload the correct one when I get home 4pm PST..

Sorry

CaIslander
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dragonsjaw,

The link is working now !! . Smiling
Hope that is what ya were trying to do Wink If you have any problems with this code post back.

Till The Next Question

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