Joshua said:
Is there an extra space or return in the HTML file? Sometimes spaces between
the ending tags of the control can cause that problem. For example, you want
the following:
</table></body>
NOT </table>
</body>
Same with your <tr> and <td> tags as well.
Apologies, I cannot see the original post, only this answer. In short,
the answer is "because browsers are odd". Even when (if?) you manage to
get everything laid out exactly how you want it in e.g. Internet
Explorer, you'll find it renders differently in Opera and Firefox. That
doesn't stop the bloody analysts in my shop insisting that everything
has to be "just so". I gradually guide them towards making the user
experience good, and the layout reasonable.
(Worst experience was one analyst who didn't want any scrollbars, so
had designed every webpage to sit on one page of the spec. Portrait.)
But to try to answer the original question:
1) Do you have enough content to fill the inner element? Sometimes if
you only have a single line of text, the element will get shortened
anyway.
2) Try turning on borders on everything - this can often expose that
the element you believe is responsible for layout problems isn't
3) Is the table well-formed? Are the number of rows/columns consistent
(can especially turn up when using rowspan/colspans > 1)
Damien
