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Table Dangers In Netscape
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Are you getting headaches in making those appear as what you want in Netscape? Here's your solution!

"Black Borders"
Some web designers like to create thin rows and columns around their table and fill them up with black to make borders around the table. But beware of Netscape, it has a "flaw" that can screw up your tables!

The problem with Netscape is that it doesn't show empty rows or columns in a table. That's why if you create a row or a column, change its background to black and don't put anything inside, Netscape doesn't show it.

Here's your solution.

First, create a 1x1 transparent gif and name it "trans.gif". Then edit the source of your HTML, and insert "trans.gif" inside every "border".

Example
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Old Code:
<TR>
<TD WIDTH=2 BGCOLOR="#000000"></TD>
</TR>

New Code:
<TR>
<TD WIDTH=2 BGCOLOR="#000000">
<IMG SRC="http://your_domain.com/trans.gif">
</TD>
</TR>

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Now that the "border" have something in it, Netscape will obediently show your beautiful black borders!

"More About Borders"
Tables come with their own borders. Yes, the good old grey borders. If you don't specify how thick the borders you want it to be, Internet Explorer will go with the default, 0. Netscape will go with the default too, but not as expected.

If you don't specify the borders, your table's rows and columns will look "spaced out". Here's your solution.

Example:
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Old Code:
<TABLE>
<TR>
<TD BGCOLOR="#000000"></TD>
<TD BGCOLOR="#000000"></TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>

New Code:
<TABLE BORDER=0>
<TR>
<TD BGCOLOR="#000000"></TD>
<TD BGCOLOR="#000000"></TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>

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The old code will make the black columns look spaced out in Netscape, as Netscape creates a transparent border around your table. But if you forcefully tell Netscape that you want the border to be "0", Netscape will have no choice but to remove that transparent border.

That's the end of this article! Hope it helps and thanks for reading!

Regards,
Jack

Written by Jack Chen
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